Uncommon Sense Teaching
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Taught by Dr. Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski
Social SciencesPersonal Development
About the course
Do your students spend too much (or too little) time learning, with disappointing results? Do they procrastinate in their study because it’s boring and they’re easily distracted? Are you working to make your teaching even more inclusive? Uncommon Sense Teaching will give you practical new insights that will help you solve these goals and challenges, and many more. This is like no other course on teaching—it weaves late-breaking insights from neuroscience with personal insights from the classr
The consensus
Every one of the 20 reviews we read gave it 4★ or more. This is the most-upvoted one (10 votes).
“lovely course for all teachers and parents.This course gave me an insight about why I follow certain methods of teaching and how ithis course will help to do better teaching learning process.”
Coursera's 4.9 comes from 697 ratings. Of those, 1.0% 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 ↗