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

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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

LV

Apr 30, 2020

I enjoyed this MOOC. It is very well-done and clearly covers the topics of mindshifting along with career advancement. Also--good illustrations and visuals/sounds which assist in the learning process.

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.

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By princess s

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Feb 26, 2021

This course is very essential. It should be one of the first MOOCs you take. I was able to learn new skills and gain the confidence needed to pursue my Masters Degree. The lecturer Barbara Oakley is also really great!!!

By Kimberly L

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Aug 16, 2020

The course is very informative and interesting. It helped me see in another perspective the conventional learning methods that I have studied. It also helped me to understand other ways in improving my own learning style.

By Tushar D

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Jul 20, 2020

The course is designed and executed in very systematic way. It was very interactive and engaging. The complex topics are made easier to understand and broken in small topics to make them simpler. Tanks to Barbera and team.

By Loraine P E O

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Jul 17, 2020

Este curso fue demasiado enriquecedor para mí, me dejó muchísimas enseñanzas para mi aprendizaje futuro. Me encantó la forma de enseñar de los profesores Barbara y Terry. Quisiera volver a tener un curso virtual con ellos.

By Ola A

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May 12, 2020

It is so simple with too many things to learn. I loved the way of presenting the information. plus the length of the videos was not too long and that made it easy to understand and digest the information. thank you so much

By Hayley

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Apr 29, 2020

This re enforces the work you learned in learning to learn and then some I enjoyed doing both of them. Barbra is easy to listen to and explains things very well. I wish she had been my teacher in school. This is a must do

By Harmony E

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Oct 11, 2023

It is a very entertaining course, it uses metaphors to understand better concepts and help me see my disadvantage as an advantage. It is well explained and easy to understand and both of the professors are very engaging.

By Tuong P

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Jun 5, 2021

Excited about contents and instructors, help me to look back myself, my career. This course inspired me to take other courses that I want to learn, some things I don't have a chance when study at university. Thank a lot.

By Dinuk S

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Feb 16, 2021

This is one of the best course that i completed so far. I have a dream/ target to be an energetic, fun, active lecturer. I hope this will help me to achieve my target one day. Course content, teaching methods are great.

By Clara

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Sep 11, 2018

Barb is a great teacher, she is able to break down complex subjects in a very simple and easy to understand way.

The course gives practical tips and tools backed up by scientific evidences on how to improve your learning.

By mona s

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Jun 3, 2020

i have thoroughly enjoyed this MOOC and i have learned a lot from this MOOC. teachers are exceptional and i love their way of teaching. i would love to take more courses of them. i am really happy to have learned a lot.

By Sudip B

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Jan 1, 2021

This is a wonderful course. It really helped me evaluate myself and my thinking as a whole and made me realize my potential and overcome my shortcomings. I encourage anyone who wish to have a mindshift to try this out.

By Stacey H

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Jun 17, 2020

Loved the teaching content & style. It has been very encouraging to learn that I can break through many obstacles & discover my hidden potential. I have more confidence & a better understanding now of how to do this.

By Jesusa M F

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May 30, 2020

An excellent course that is truly commendable! I have learned a lot from this MOOC that will surely help me in making wise decision to my future. Thank you so much to my teachers from McMaster University and Coursera !

By Nardine D

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Jun 11, 2020

This is one of the best mooc I have completed. Thank you to the team who have done an amazing job. I have learned so much. I needed this mind shift in my life. Thanks to this course I know what to do and how to do it.

By Surendra T

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Apr 22, 2020

Every video and reading of the course bind the students till the end of the course. I found this course keeps motivated and helps the people who is willing to shift carrier in the area which they feel are not skilled.

By Gabriel G

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Sep 23, 2017

An excellent course. I have been a teacher for over 31 years and I accept that I must learn to teach. The new generations require that we know how they learn with the new technologies being friendly with their brains.

By Dona L C

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Jan 16, 2023

Taking this course allowed me to understand that I have my own learning style, and to stop comparing my way of learning to others. I now understand my own needs better and can express the why in a more effective way.

By Fen G M

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Jul 11, 2020

Thank you for this wonderful course. Im happy i was able to learn new things from you. But i am a little bit sad knowing that the certificate is not for free. But themn thank you for the knowledge you imparted on me.

By Miguel S

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Feb 21, 2024

Excellent Course. Content was relevant to real life experiences, Ideas communicated effectively by the professors, and course achieved its goal to break my obstacles to learning and discover my potential. Thank you.

By Nishad Y

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Sep 13, 2023

The concepts explained were so helpful- it made me feel positive, optimistic, and eager to learn more new concepts to create more neural pathways. Good luck and thanks to Barbara and the team. Keep up the good work!

By Sylvia G

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Oct 27, 2020

Barbara has given a great gift to students. I hope that courses like Mindshift and Learning How to Learn will be made available to urban and rural students in a manner that is just as appealing as the originals!!!!

By Rubina M

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Dec 15, 2017

My First MOOC and I found it very interesting because of Barb. I truly enjoyed how she used metaphors and other creative ways of making us understand and finally I found reviewing the material at the end of our week

By Karmen-Ana W

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Feb 10, 2021

I loved this course as much as the last one, Learning how to learn!

I received insight, very useful tips, but also motivation and a little push forward to do better and achieve my goals.

Thank you Barbara and Terry!

By Aedrian A

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Jan 11, 2021

Excellent and insightful MOOC that is the perfect sequel to Learning How to Learn (LHTL); this is taken best as your second-ever MOOC after LHTL to have a good head start in your quest for lifelong online learning.