Chevron Left
Back to Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by McMaster University

4.8
stars
12,626 ratings

About the Course

Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed! This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)...

Top reviews

EC

Aug 26, 2020

I enjoyed this course very much. I am 64-years-old and this course taught me that you can learn anything new no matter what age you are. I am now broadening my passions and learning is a lot more fun.

DI

Oct 30, 2020

Great course! This is a lot more general than Learning about Learning but is also useful nonetheless. I like the focus on keeping positive and being confident in your potential despite our weaknesses.

Filter by:

826 - 850 of 3,613 Reviews for Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

By Steven A C

•

Apr 10, 2020

Really great course on learning! Better than the paid courses I've taken on other websites! It was also useful that the android app has the offline feature. It helped me finished half of the course even though I had slow internet.

By G. A W

•

Jul 7, 2020

Excellent and very well presented MOOC with a lot of useful information. I took this as one of my first courses in my return to learning and am glad I did. It had many tips and had a very positive and inspiring overall message.

By Achmad C

•

Nov 18, 2022

I am Ahmad Chusanuddin. after taking this course I became excited to always learn learn learn and learn. here it is explained how we should continue to learn. by studying every day will make us healthy and kept away from amnesia

By Hardy L O

•

Nov 5, 2020

It was a great course. I did also participate in Learning how to learn and was absolutely thrilled about both courses for their deep insight and quality. I have since received the newsletter and taken part in the Facebook forum.

By Ritu K

•

Oct 21, 2020

Excellent Course and Videos. I was glued to the course and completed it in just two days. Lots of new learning and deep insights from this course. I shall definitely apply these learnings in my life.

Thanks for this opportunity.

By Jeremy G J Y

•

Jul 6, 2020

Really felt like I learnt a lot. I attribute this to the engaging visuals, and the humour used when delivering this online course, besides good time frame where I was actually constantly looking forward to continuing the course.

By Kaushik K G

•

Aug 20, 2019

A fantastic course. I am in my mid career and looking forward to make a change. This course really enabled me with lot of inputs. I recommend this course for anyone looking for a career change particularly, at any stage of life.

By Shawn S

•

Jun 21, 2018

A perfect course to complement Learning how to Learn. Use what is in both courses and take time to practice them and practice them again (memory palace and other things you learn) until they become habit or in your subconscious.

By Badar M

•

Jun 22, 2022

There are a very few course that can can challenge your preconcived half false beliefs. This course of one of those. It helps you become a life long learner and help sto really break out of your self imposed unconcious beliefs.

By Vidya S

•

Jul 2, 2021

A very well organized course. I really enjoyed each and every sessions. And I have also started applying it in my day-to-day life as well. I am really grateful to be a part of this session even though it was an online platform.

By Anuj K K

•

Feb 5, 2021

This course is really recommended for everyone who has completed Learning How to Learn. The instructors have sound knowledge on the subject and they combine teaching and humor to learning. This makes it ultimately fun to learn.

By Maria J D

•

Aug 20, 2020

I am very thankful about this course. I learned a lot about myself (on how I learn, what can help me better when it comes to learning and understanding new skills) and somehow it made me realized how my students learn as well.

By Cody D

•

May 2, 2020

This was such a delightful journey through some really fascinating subjects about learning and self-improvement. I feel so inspired and educated after taking this class, like I could tackle anything with hard work and practice.

By Aleksey G

•

Apr 27, 2020

I've learned so much from this course and discovered something that i didn't even expected to find here. In overall i would like to say thank you to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for such a remarkable knowledge.

By Md. D N

•

Nov 30, 2020

Thanks to professor B.O. for her again brilliant approach and presentation for this MOOC. I hope that this will help many people like me to understand their abilities and be more creative in their life. Happy learning everyone

By Joseph D

•

Apr 23, 2020

This MOOC is an all rounder and recommended to people of all ages. The concepts broken down in small potions make it very easy to digest and the visual aids used make it very palpable. Kudos to the entire team for this course.

By Gabriela C

•

Apr 17, 2020

Very helpful if you are struggling into finding motivation or if this is your first ever go at online learning, like me! A lot of research-based facts, fun mentors, and good content overall. A nice first experience at MOOCing.

By Christine G

•

Apr 12, 2020

Love this first MOOC I have done, it really makes you think about learning styles and proposes other ideas for consideration. It really made me change my mind about some things I had taken for granted. Well worth the effort.

By Sandhya V P

•

Jul 12, 2021

The course is well designed and the efforts put by the instructors to teach by using videos, graphics, interviews of people and additional resources is really appreciated. Thank you, the key concepts will definitely help us..

By Barbora H

•

Jun 21, 2020

This MOOC has been so wonderful and so very valuable to me. It opened my eyes when it comes to learning and how retain as much information as possible. I am so grateful. I enjoyed the assignments, the videos and the lectures.

By shubham b

•

Jun 19, 2020

Mind-shift is in Progress, It is Must for Teenagers especially and Any age group.

How You See Yourself and Brain get changed . Now Resources and View Point Comes in and Path

to Unlock Treasure during course of life get starts.

By Anupama K

•

May 25, 2020

This is the best course to begin with the new journey of learning. It just gives the right motivation and inspiration to identify and kick start work on our development.

Thanks a lot Barbara and Terry for this awesome course!

By Dr F S

•

Aug 18, 2020

I thoroughly enjoyed this course. Drs. Oakley and Sejnowski are true subject matter experts and know how to convey complex subject matter in entertaining and understandable ways. I highly recommend this course to everyone.

By Riska B F

•

Nov 12, 2020

This Mindshift course really helped me to accept that we also have to add other skills and not be stuck with just one skill. Besides that, it also made me more open minded and changed my mindset. Great, thank you very much.

By Clay S

•

Apr 19, 2022

An excellent followup to Learning How to Learn.

It touches again on ideas from LHTL, and explains them in more detail using easy to understand images and metaphors.

Another excellently presented course.

Extremely helpful.