diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 749bef4180..ab2004794b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Changed
 
+- Changed the default values `pin_memory=False`, `shuffle=False` and `num_workers=16` to `pin_memory=True`, `shuffle=True` and `num_workers=0` of datamodules ([#701](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/lightning-bolts/pull/701))
+
 
 ### Deprecated
 
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/binary_mnist_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/binary_mnist_datamodule.py
index d234f51b88..f767b21655 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/binary_mnist_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/binary_mnist_datamodule.py
@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         data_dir: Optional[str] = None,
         val_split: Union[int, float] = 0.2,
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         normalize: bool = False,
         batch_size: int = 32,
         seed: int = 42,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/cifar10_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/cifar10_datamodule.py
index cd809a632f..052f52fc2c 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/cifar10_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/cifar10_datamodule.py
@@ -62,12 +62,12 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         data_dir: Optional[str] = None,
         val_split: Union[int, float] = 0.2,
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         normalize: bool = False,
         batch_size: int = 32,
         seed: int = 42,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         data_dir: Optional[str] = None,
         val_split: int = 50,
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         num_samples: int = 100,
         labels: Optional[Sequence] = (1, 5, 8),
         *args: Any,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/cityscapes_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/cityscapes_datamodule.py
index f435c7c868..83d84a8ff9 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/cityscapes_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/cityscapes_datamodule.py
@@ -66,11 +66,11 @@ def __init__(
         data_dir: str,
         quality_mode: str = 'fine',
         target_type: str = 'instance',
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         batch_size: int = 32,
         seed: int = 42,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/fashion_mnist_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/fashion_mnist_datamodule.py
index f945e00912..ad543e7687 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/fashion_mnist_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/fashion_mnist_datamodule.py
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         data_dir: Optional[str] = None,
         val_split: Union[int, float] = 0.2,
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         normalize: bool = False,
         batch_size: int = 32,
         seed: int = 42,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/imagenet_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/imagenet_datamodule.py
index 15494e55b7..e45ce63bd0 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/imagenet_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/imagenet_datamodule.py
@@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ def __init__(
         meta_dir: Optional[str] = None,
         num_imgs_per_val_class: int = 50,
         image_size: int = 224,
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         batch_size: int = 32,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/kitti_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/kitti_datamodule.py
index ee4014d67a..efefe5c6e5 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/kitti_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/kitti_datamodule.py
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ def __init__(
         data_dir: Optional[str] = None,
         val_split: float = 0.2,
         test_split: float = 0.1,
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         batch_size: int = 32,
         seed: int = 42,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/mnist_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/mnist_datamodule.py
index 8ba86f2403..f81ad792af 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/mnist_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/mnist_datamodule.py
@@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         data_dir: Optional[str] = None,
         val_split: Union[int, float] = 0.2,
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         normalize: bool = False,
         batch_size: int = 32,
         seed: int = 42,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/sklearn_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/sklearn_datamodule.py
index 704f671c06..dd2ee6793a 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/sklearn_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/sklearn_datamodule.py
@@ -153,11 +153,11 @@ def __init__(
         y_test=None,
         val_split=0.2,
         test_split=0.1,
-        num_workers=2,
+        num_workers=0,
         random_state=1234,
         shuffle=True,
         batch_size: int = 16,
-        pin_memory=False,
+        pin_memory=True,
         drop_last=False,
         *args,
         **kwargs,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/ssl_imagenet_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/ssl_imagenet_datamodule.py
index 3d4c827eb7..c1a87f0023 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/ssl_imagenet_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/ssl_imagenet_datamodule.py
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         data_dir: str,
         meta_dir: Optional[str] = None,
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         batch_size: int = 32,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/stl10_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/stl10_datamodule.py
index 640a57181c..8384134cf1 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/stl10_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/stl10_datamodule.py
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@ def __init__(
         data_dir: Optional[str] = None,
         unlabeled_val_split: int = 5000,
         train_val_split: int = 500,
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         batch_size: int = 32,
         seed: int = 42,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/vision_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/vision_datamodule.py
index d15d9c59d4..8c6c5c055d 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/vision_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/vision_datamodule.py
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         data_dir: Optional[str] = None,
         val_split: Union[int, float] = 0.2,
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         normalize: bool = False,
         batch_size: int = 32,
         seed: int = 42,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,
diff --git a/pl_bolts/datamodules/vocdetection_datamodule.py b/pl_bolts/datamodules/vocdetection_datamodule.py
index 20834a3af3..0f98e240af 100644
--- a/pl_bolts/datamodules/vocdetection_datamodule.py
+++ b/pl_bolts/datamodules/vocdetection_datamodule.py
@@ -114,10 +114,10 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         data_dir: str,
         year: str = "2012",
-        num_workers: int = 16,
+        num_workers: int = 0,
         normalize: bool = False,
-        shuffle: bool = False,
-        pin_memory: bool = False,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        pin_memory: bool = True,
         drop_last: bool = False,
         *args: Any,
         **kwargs: Any,