Universidad Politecnica Salesiana (UPS) and Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI), from Spain, held the last module of the course: "Neuroeducation applied in the university" aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate professors at UPS.

Neuroeducation is a new discipline where scientific research on the study of the brain, the knowledge of psychology and neuropsychology converge with education for the development of educational innovation and the improvement of the teaching-learning process in classrooms.

Training for UPS professors started in 2018, since then there have been three groups of professors who have taken the course. The last one ends this week and there has been a total of 428 professors who have passed the course.

The course is made up of seven modules: 

• Neuroscience applied to the university

• Emotions.

• The motivated brain in the classroom.

• Interactions of physical activity, sleep and nutrition with the brain and learning.

• Stress and learning are bad companions: influence of stress on academic performance.

• Teaching innovation and ICT: an emotional and instrumental process.

• Innovation in the strategies for evaluating the outcome of the learning process.