What you'll learn
Change IS possible
Getting Deeper into Happy Learning
Learning and Careers
Adopting a Learning Lifestyle
Description
Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.
We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more-far more-than you might have ever dreamed! This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)
Requirements
Access to a computer or mobile device with an internet connection.
Motivation to learn!
There are no special materials or prerequisite knowledge required for this course.
Who this course is for
Students who are new to this field
Students willing to put in a couple hours to learn about Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
Advanced students wanting to add another skill to their portfolio
Content Creator
Dr. Barbara Oakley – Ramón y Cajal Distinguished Scholar of Global Digital Learning, McMaster University – Professor of Engineering, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Oakland University
Dr. Terrence Sejnowski – Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies – Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
M.S. Orlando Trejo – Assistant Professor – Department of Electronics and Circuits, Universidad Simón Bolívar
This course includes
Participation Confirmation/Certificate
Option for learning at your own pace
Videos and reading material about the course
Practice tests
Assessed tasks with feedback from other course participants
Evaluated tests with feedback
Evaluated programming tasks
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