Coursera: Learning How to Learn

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Course Objectives

By the end of the course, we expect you to be able to do the following:

• Explain the difference between focused and diffuse modes of thinking.
• Explain what a chunk is, and how and why you can and should enhance your chunking skills.
• Explain how working memory and long term memory differ from one another.
• Describe key techniques to help students learn most efficiently such as: pomodoro, metaphor, story, visualization, deliberate practice, and interleaving.
• Describe actions that hinder students from learning most effectively such as procrastination, over-learning, Einstellung, choking, multi-tasking, illusions of learning, and lack of sleep.
• Describe the most important aspects of proper test preparation.
• Explain the importance of “mindset” in learning.