Coursera: a course that will teach you how to learn

The University of California in San Diego offers free of charge to gain the skills that will help significantly increase the own effectiveness in teaching anyone: a teenager and a pensioner, student, intern and head of the company, technicians and humanities.

The course "Learn to learn" will allow you to gain access to the invaluable training techniques used by experts in art, science and sport.

Course author - Barbara Oakley (Barbara Oakley). As a teenager, she was not too disposed to the exact sciences. After receiving linguistic education, she went to work as a translator in the Soviet trawler.

Later, fate brought her to Ford, you took her to where engineering knowledge. Do not fold the face of difficulties, she received a degree at Auckland University and began teaching there. On his difficult professional way Barbara has mastered the most effective ways of learning, about which told the world at Coursera.

As part of the course "

• to avoid errorsWhich lead to understanding the illusion;
• learn faster memorize information;
• effectively resist procrastination;
• acquire knowledge in a completely new area or to overcome the "ceiling" in the area in which you become an expert.

The course consists of 4 parts, the passage of each of them will take you about an hour. In this case, you do not need to do homework or use additional software - simply listen to the lectures and to perform simple tests. Study material can be at a pace at which you are comfortable. You can enable subtitles in Russian, if necessary.

Personally, I was comfortable to watch the lecture on the smartphone during morning workouts on orbitrek. I did not include subtitles, as the feed rate of the material, as well as visual accompaniment make the material is quite affordable for the Upper-Intermediate level. The only thing that upset me after the course - is that I have not seen it before. At the university I would be very useful these skills.

If you have friends, students, be sure to let them know about this course! This knowledge will make their university years, much more pleasant and productive.