Learning How To Learn for Youth
Arizona State University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Dr. Barbara Oakley, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski, Greg Hammons
Personal DevelopmentArts and Humanities
About the course
Based on one of the most popular open online courses in the world, this course gives you easy access to the learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. No matter what your current skill level, using these approaches can help you master new topics, change your thinking and improve your life. This course explains: * Why sometimes letting your mind wander is an important part of the learning process * How to avoid "rut th
The consensus
Every one of the 20 reviews we read gave it 4★ or more. This is the most-upvoted one (22 votes).
“I am still seeing octopede/octopuses with tentacles in backpacks or lockers. Wonderful!!! I am a therapist who works with all age children and this will be extremely helpful! Thank you to all of you.”
Coursera's 4.8 comes from 3,049 ratings. Of those, 0.6% are 1–2★.
Starisk reads the reviews learners voted most helpful, and weights each by the square root of its votes: a review with 80 upvotes counts about five times one with 2. Unvoted reviews are not skipped out of laziness — by this model they carry no evidence that other students endorsed them.
That measures what the most-endorsed reviews say, not “true quality.” The rating distribution above is the whole population, so you can see the sample next to it.
Reviews read on 23 Oct 2026.Read them on Coursera ↗