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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

RD

May 17, 2025

I just want to say thank you for opening my eyes to things that I didn’t know. If I can forget everything that I learned, I will not forget about how to control myself feelings when situations arise.

TM

Feb 12, 2018

I really enjoyed the first course, Learn 2Learn. The female professor is great but the boring old guy should have been kicked out of the course, as he do not provide anything of value for the course.

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By Alvaro P V

Jan 17, 2018

Great mooc! I learned more deeply how to learn and how to broaden my passion!... I will be waiting for more from Barbara and Terry!

By Jacqueline O

Jun 25, 2017

Outstanding course!

Great information that will help you understanding better ways to learn and see that you can do more.

Thank you

By Redvers F C

Jul 9, 2020

A truly amazing, informative, enjoyable course that I would recommend to anyone and everyone who wants to improve their knowledge.

By abhishek b

May 21, 2020

It was a very nice MOOC, got to learn a lot of good things, thankful and grateful to the Creators who created this good content...

By Andreas W

Nov 18, 2017

The course is exellent for its quality. It is easy to understand and fun. With good examples. Use all possible teaching resources.

By 晚星

May 1, 2021

Excellent MOOC really blows my mind away from a lot of doubts I had for myself. Really helpful course would recommend to friends.

By Abdane V T

Jun 20, 2020

Funny, and very interesting. Its approach to learning allowed me to get deep insight and grasp the topics without much difficulty

By KHANNA K R

Apr 29, 2020

WAS A GREAT COURSE. OPENED MY EYES IN AREAS IN WHICH I WAS COMPLETELY WRONG. ALSO TAUGHT SOME TRICKS AND NEW THINGS ABOUT CAREER

By Sukhjeet S

Apr 21, 2020

It was really a great experience. I have learned a lot. I hope, it will have a significant impact on my life.

Thanks a lot tutors.

By Inga S H

Sep 17, 2024

I am very happy with that course and thank everybody a lot who was engaged in producing and is accompanying that course. Inga

By dastin m

Oct 28, 2022

Everything is fine, I especially liked the versatile modules, I would like more information on practices like delivery practice

By Sanal S

Jul 25, 2021

Great Course for anyone wanting to develop their ability to learn and understand concepts which were previously foreign to them.

By Alessia R

Jan 2, 2021

This is a very well done and well structured course and I learnt a lot of things I didnt know about how get the best from moocs!

By Manasi S

May 8, 2020

This course is really helpful.It gives idea of how to tackle the obstacles and learn and gives a positive approach towards life.

By aBy L

May 3, 2020

Very Encouraging course that sharpen mind to get ready and take a huge step toward successful career life with awesome knowledge

By Bodhisattya H

Apr 23, 2020

very very good course with a lot of mindblowing pieces of information and a lot of positive attitudes towards life and learning.

By Sviatlana K

Jan 17, 2019

It's very helpful course for people who wants to improve yourself and shift current situation in other way, but not to know how.

By Pinailug T E

Mar 12, 2022

This course is fantastic! The sequence of the lectures is very well-organised. The explanation and examples are clearly stated.

By ISHITA V G

Mar 27, 2021

This was a good follow-up of Learning How to Learn. Learnt a lot during the course. Hoping to put my Mindshift into practice :)

By Mayuri R

Aug 10, 2020

It was such a fantastic course. My first MOOc and I am glad I selected this one. Prof Barbara is an amazing teacher. Thank you.

By EricLee

Jun 7, 2020

Mindshift this course helps me build lots of concepts of efficient study and encourage me to be more confident. Thanks so much!

By Shemiah T

May 21, 2020

I'm so excited!!! I feel free and ready to tackle something first! But, first...let me REWARD MYSELF!! Great Mindshifting guys.

By Dr. S S

Apr 18, 2020

The course is really wonderful. It focused on various aspects of life and discussed a simple approach can make our life better.

By Rajneesh S

Nov 7, 2018

One of the Best courses I have taken online.Learned a lot of new things. Thanks for valuable insight to a lot of new concepts.

By Shreya D

Jun 26, 2021

I loved the instructors. Barb and Terry are amazing teachers and they managed to make this MOOC very interesting and engaging.