Learning How to Learn

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Learning How to Learn ends this week.  I have taken the final, so I'm done.  (I declined to do the "peer-reviewed" exercises.)

This is an easy and short (4 weeks) class, but it is packed with useful info. 

I recommend Learning How to Learn to anyone.  Especially anyone who has struggled with schoolwork.  The tips and tricks that are taught in the class are good to know -- and why not take advantage of the knowledge others have gained about what works and what does not work, when we are trying to learn new material?  (Especially abstract material.....)

Why reinvent every wheel for yourself, when other people are eager to teach you all about wheels?

I wish I had taken a class like this between high school (which I found to be laughably easy, and where I did not learn anything about how to learn), and college (which was NOT easy, and where I spent a good deal of time learning -- the hard way -- how to learn).

Learning How to Learn is being offered again, starting on October 3.  I think it is well worth anyone's time.  Unless you have been studying the research on learning, I am confident you will learn some things you did not know.  Things which might well enhance your learning and your creativity, especially when you tackle learning the next thing that is new to you.

Remember that Coursera classes are free, and that there's no obligation to do any part of the class that you do not wish to do.  It's perfectly fine to just listen to the lectures (though you will learn in class that your learning will be deeper and more complete if you do take the quizzes...).

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