Máster en Neuroeducación draft

Program Overview

The Master in Neuroeducation from Universidad Europea del Atlántico (UNEATLANTICO) provides students with a comprehensive understanding of models for diagnosing, evaluating, and addressing learning difficulties. The program explores the role of the nervous system in cognitive processes and utilizes neurotechnological resources for intervention in various areas, including sensory and motor disorders, language and communication, dyscalculia, attention deficits, autism spectrum disorders, and high abilities. Graduates will be equipped with advanced knowledge and skills to specialize in neuroeducational intervention and advise on educational projects based on neuroscience.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Master in Neuroeducation is an official postgraduate degree where you will learn to analyze different models of diagnosis, evaluation, and attention to learning difficulties. You will also study how to design educational responses based on the nervous system and what its role is in neuropsychological processes such as memory, emotion, and language, among others.

Outline:

The Master in Neuroeducation is structured as follows:

First Year

• Module 1: Learning Difficulties from an Inclusive Perspective (6 ECTS)
• Inclusive education as a right.
• Another look at the conceptualization of learning difficulties.
• The prevention of learning difficulties.
• Comprehensive educational care and its implications.
• The psychopedagogical report as a basis for designing work in the classroom.
• Functional diversity and learning difficulties.
• Module 2: Brain Plasticity.
• Neurocognitive Aspects of Learning (6 ECTS)
• The nervous system, its development, and relationship with cognition and emotion.
• Brain, brain functions, and brain plasticity.
Incidents in learning.
• Characteristics of neurodevelopment in early childhood and changes in adolescence.
• Affective, motivational, and social processes in school learning.
• Biological and environmental factors that affect neurodevelopment.
• New trends and advances in cognitive neuroscience.
• Neurodevelopment from 0 to 6 years and educational implications.
• Neurodevelopment from 7 to 11 years and educational implications.
• Primitive reflexes as the engine of sensorimotor development.
• The implications of early childhood in the educational field.
• Motor and sensory disorders.
• Specific language disorder: TEL
• Speech disorders: Dyslalia and Dysarthria
• Difficulty learning in written expression: Dysgraphia and Dysorthography
• Learning disorders in reading.
Dyslexia
• Learning disorders in writing.
Dysgraphia
• New trends in the teaching and learning of mathematics, from counting to problem solving
• Mathematics and the neurological processes involved in its learning
• Dyscalculia: all its facets
• Diagnosis and evaluation: its implication in the adaptation of curricular content
• The connection of difficulties in learning mathematics with difficulties related to language.
• Neurotechnological resources for difficulties in learning mathematics.
• Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
• Different perspectives on ADHD and its characteristics.
• Educational implications for the comprehensive care of students with learning difficulties associated with ADHD.
• Different perspectives on conduct disorders.
• The importance of attachment and the social context.
• Multiple intelligences.
• Autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
• Communication disorders.
• Creativity.
The explosion of talent in the classroom. Creativity as an end and as a means for learning.
• Curricular and extracurricular intervention in high intellectual abilities and dual exceptionality (high abilities + ASD; High abilities + ADHD).
• Module 8: Innovation in Neurodidactics for the Optimization of the Teaching and Learning Process (6 ECTS)
• PBL.
• Educational chess.
Educational resource.
• New systems for learning mathematics: ABN, EntusiasMAT, Singapore, etc.
• Mindfulness.
• Technologies and access adaptations for students with special educational needs.
• Educational coaching and emotional intelligence in the classroom.
• Module 9: Professional Practices (6 ECTS)
Consult the practice centers.
• Module 10: Master's Thesis (6 ECTS)
• Carrying out an original research work that integrates all the knowledge, skills, and competencies acquired in the master's degree.

Teaching:

• Faculty: The teaching staff is made up of active professionals and doctors with a recognized career.
• Methodology: The program uses a combination of online classes, case studies, and practical exercises.
• Technology: The program incorporates the latest technologies, such as virtual simulators, to provide students with a hands-on learning experience.

Careers:

• Potential Career Paths:
• Specialist in attention to the diversity of students and specific intervention to overcome learning difficulties and developmental disorders.
• Advisor of educational projects based on neuroscience.
• Efficiently advise parents and teachers, taking into account neurodiversity.
• If you are a teacher, you will be an expert in neuroeducation in different educational stages, achieving more effective adaptations based on evidence.
• If you are a counselor, you will have specialized in improving school performance, preventing learning difficulties, developing skills, and including neurodiversity.
• Access to the Doctorate: you can start in the research of neuropsychology applied to education.
• Attention in home care units, psychological offices, educational centers, playgroups, etc., depending on your previous training.

Other:

• Program Quality: The Universidad Europea is committed to offering its students a comprehensive, innovative, and quality education.
They want to accompany you in your learning process and help you achieve your professional goals.
• Direct Contact with Your Professors: The teaching staff is made up of active professionals and doctors with a recognized career.
It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Live Online Classes: All subjects have weekly videoconference classes.
You can follow them live from any computer or mobile device.
• Official Master's Degree:
• ANECA Certification: Certified by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Quality and Accreditation, dependent on the Ministry of Education.
• European Recognition: Homologable and recognized title in any country of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
• Access to Doctorate: Allows you to access a Doctorate in Education.
• Digital Tools: Among the main technological tools that you will see in the master's degree, you will find tools specialized in artificial intelligence (AI), audiovisual content, presentation of content and data, classroom management systems, personalized itineraries, and activity design, among others.
• Clinical Educational: By taking this master's degree, you can participate in the Clinical Educational, helping educational centers to face their challenges, implementing innovative solutions and projects.
• Harvard Business Publishing: Access to training courses to develop skills to excel in your Master's Thesis.
Learn how to manage your time effectively, skills in the effective design of projects, and improve your presentation skills.
• Digital Badges | Recognize Your Knowledge: When you take this master's degree, in addition to the official degree, you can obtain these digital recognition badges that accredit your knowledge and training.
These badges are awarded to students of the Universidad Europea who have passed the module corresponding to the competence defined by the badge. The badges allow you to recognize your achievements and validate your abilities. In addition, you can share them by any means.
• Obtain the Most Recognized Certificates: The contents of this qualification will allow you to improve your skills and prepare you for the certificates of:
• Microsoft Educator.
• You can take your exams at any of the seven headquarters we have in Spain: Madrid, Valencia, Tenerife, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, and A Coruña.
Keep in mind that, due to the transitional situation due to the socio-political climate of the country, in Ecuador and Peru, the evaluation tests are carried out virtually, although this is subject to change.