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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 Uvo-Vincent D

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Nov 4, 2018

this course has helped me beyond words. i am grateful to the lecturers and everyone who put in effort to make this MOOC possible. i love you all and God bless you all

By Eeva L

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Sep 24, 2017

Excellent follow up to Learning to Learn. This course sets you up for thinking broadly your abilities and adaptation in ever-changing world of science and technology.

By Malalarisoa R R

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Sep 10, 2020

Many thanks for this huge Opportunity to allow myself to learn and to grow!! So porus, Mindshift module is such a very innovative and relevant module today's demand

By Anastasia I

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May 17, 2020

One of my first MOOCs. It was lots of fun and I enjoyed the short, really entertaining and helpful videos. Thank you so much! I am leaving with a head full of ideas.

By Juan J M

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Jul 31, 2020

Just great! Bárbara did it so easy and great to learn. Thank s a lot for sharing this information and dedicate all your time, genius and talent to this. Excellent!

By Sandeep S

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Jul 23, 2020

Very nice and well defined material. It was also full of use cases which allowed me to connect.

i learned new techniques, will practice in future for better results.

By RIC A D

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May 25, 2020

I love learning with the Mindshift course. While I am watching it I learn to discover possible opportunity I can get as an individual on my career or personal life.

By Alyssa R

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Apr 16, 2020

This is one of my favorite MOOCs. I will take what I have learned here with me for the rest of my life. Thank you so much for all of the wonderful insight and tips!

By Joao L F L

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Jun 1, 2018

It helped me view things with a whole new set of information that changed my life for the better and also informed me about things i wish i should have known before

By Annette B

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Jun 4, 2021

very enjoyable and some useful stuff in it. At the same time, the keying out of the green screen could be improved. But maybe I'm biased as I'm an editor by trade.

By Denzil J

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Jan 28, 2020

This MOOC was the best I ever had come thru, I kept learning and the the best of the Test, I had attempted 9 time to get thru, This taught me more that i expected.

By Ryan N

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Apr 18, 2018

Fantastic course. Useful content even if you have taken Learning How to Learn as well. Some of this information will be beneficial to me throughout my entire life!

By Karen S M

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Aug 24, 2017

Good Stuff. Something for everyone. Well taught and easy to digest. No matter where you are in your education or career you can find something useful in this MOOC.

By Ruby J S

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Dec 28, 2021

The course will totally guide you on how to learn and which areas you need to improve in learning how to learn and discover your hidden potential. Enjoy learning.

By Kantheera W

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Jun 20, 2021

this course really helps those who are struggled with their current learning/career. If you find yourself lost, this course is the guide for you, as it is for me!

By Guadalupe

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May 15, 2020

¡Excelente! Claro, ágil y muy útil. Un gran motivador para seguir aprendiendo y expandir nuestras carreras, sobre todo entre personas que ya no somos tan jóvenes.

By Tom S

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May 13, 2020

Another home run for Barbara Oakley and her collaborators. She not only tells how to Mindshift, but she demonstrates it. Great job on the videos and presentation.

By Feyisara A

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Apr 17, 2022

It will always be useful to me when I want to dive into something new....which is no longer scary to do unlike before. Learning new things has never been better.

By Rokaya A E M s

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Jan 2, 2021

It is amazing course I have learnt a lot from it, you need a sketch and pen to write an a valuable informations, I missed up at the fourth week it is the hardest

By Ardak P

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Jun 17, 2020

The course is designed in a very convenient way to grasp all the material and apply it to everyday life. I found the content very useful and applicable. Thanks!

By Ashima S

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May 21, 2020

Thank you very much Professors -

Ms. Barbara Oakley and Mr. Terrence Sejnowski for showing me the path of lifelong learning with determination and perseverance.

By JOSE B

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Apr 23, 2020

This is my 1st MOOC and I'm really happy I landed here. I've learned a lot and most of what I've learned blows my mind. It fueled me more to never stop learning!

By N H

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Apr 5, 2020

This course helps me find the effective way to learning. There are many ways that we can choose to apply for ourselves so that we can find the most suitable one!

By Mariana K M V

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Jan 29, 2019

Excelente la forma de enseñar, tan digerible y te sientes acompañado de la mano con los ejercicios y ejemplos. te cambia la vida.

Felicitaciones a los profesores

By Satish K

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Aug 28, 2018

Wonderful course !! First of all belive in yourself and your inner mind and then have confidence in mindshifting !! Great course. Thanks a lot to all Professor .