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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

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.

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By Putut M

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Jul 2, 2020

Good e-learning. The video and description/explanation from the teacher is very clear. The video is made to make the participants more interest to learn and easy to understand the main idea.

By Angela R

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May 5, 2020

I highly recommend this class! Professor Oakley is intelligent and passionate. She also incorporates her own real life experiences into the course. Thank you for making this class available.

By vijaykhanal17@gmail.com

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Dec 31, 2017

You learn skills that can help you throughout your lifetime. The layout of the course is excellent and easy to follow. Both Learning How to Learn and this course has had a big impact on me.

By Karla T

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Oct 19, 2020

I like this MOOC because it´s gave me the opportunity to understand what I´m going through in my life and how I can change it because it´s possible be someone new no matter your experience.

By Lela M E

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Sep 21, 2020

I enjoyed this MOOC and learned a lot that I will use in the future. I haven't taken one before. I recommend this one for anyone who wants to learn and reach new levels in their job future.

By Yhestryll M C

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Jun 9, 2020

This course is amazing! Really helped me mindshift about making a career change and made me think the strategy that I need to take! I really enjoyed this course and completely recommend it.

By clementina k

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May 15, 2020

it was awesome! unexpectedly transformational and entertaining. It opened my curiosity in many ways, I learned a lot and I easily adopted habits I didn't realize were beneficial. thank you!

By Mirnajaf A

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Apr 18, 2020

This Course is really the best mind shift lesson i have ever seen. I appreciate you in order deep researching and finding most effective techniques and introducing most motivational surveys

By Ahmed S

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Apr 4, 2020

I love this course. The techniques and strategies are so applicable and understandable. The way of delivering the lecture in so efficient. Both Miss Babara and Sir Terry are great teachers.

By Camilo A G M

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Mar 25, 2021

Great teachers and excellent content! I'm really happy of having learned from them. There are a lot of useful ideas for everyone, no matter their career or age. Highly recommended. Thanks!

By Nahian T

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Jun 10, 2020

This course was very interesting and helpful for me. It made me realise that I do not need to keep myself occupied with my discipline only , rather try other things too. Thank you so much.

By Daniela A

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Apr 26, 2020

Me encanto. Te dan herramientas muy poderosas para el desarrollo de lo que quieras aprender, sin fustrarte, y si pasa te enselan que esta bien, pero siempre podes aprender a cualquier edad

By Cynthia G

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Apr 14, 2020

I find the course engaging and insightful. It's a good start in getting back to learning. Concepts are easily broken down into actionable items. Overall, I am very pleased with the course.

By Maria L

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Jan 9, 2019

It was a very helpful course with useful information and very nicely delivered by the lecturers, a persuasive advertisement for continuous learning and massive open online courses as well!

By Benjamin O

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Dec 31, 2018

Excellent MOOC dans la continuité de "Learning How to Learn". Encore plus de contenus et d'astuces. Un MOOC incontournable pour les personnes souhaitant apprendre tout au long de leur vie.

By Benedikt K

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Mar 7, 2018

Wonderful course to build upon the basis from learning how to learn. The course expands on these basics and places it within the bigger context of your life and the environment we live in.

By Yasir R

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Oct 18, 2020

I really really appreciate the constructors of this course. They done a great job. I loved the videos quality sounds everything was perfect . It was interesting and very good I love them.

By Giemhel G

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May 18, 2020

The instructors are entertaining, easy to understand, and knows what they are doing. The course literally opened my mind in different perspectives and I am excited to my future endeavors!

By STEFANO C

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Dec 27, 2019

This remarkable course opens the chance to reset your point of view of what our skills and potential are defined for and it definetely offers us possibilities to change and perform better

By Desired C

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Oct 21, 2018

Learned many new ideas and relearned old ones. I only wished that I could speed up some of the areas of the video that I already knew and slow down the parts I didn’t, in a perfect world.

By Lexie G

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Jan 17, 2018

I have been soaking in every word of this MOOC. Thank you so much, Barbara and Terrence! I really think that this class is a milestone for me. I feel so much hope and incredibly inspired!

By Alexandra T

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Jan 17, 2018

Absolutely AWESOME! I learned a lot, the teacher was great and explained everything wonderfully. I finish the course with a feeling of positivism and happiness. I absolutely recommend it!

By NUR N Z A

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Jan 21, 2022

Everyone should take this course. Even if you already know most things. I'd revisit my notes and the videos to this course. Invaluable. I absolutely love the instructors especially Barb

By Azmi K

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Mar 28, 2021

Once again Barb and Terry have done it! They've given me an opportunity to value deeply how "learning" can improve one's and society's quality of life. I thank them deeply from my heart.

By Mustafa M

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May 18, 2020

This course is exceptionally well delivered and i learnt a lot of new things such as how our brain's potential can be unlocked by a few simple techniques that every can do by themselves.