The EL PAÍS education and training section is honored for its promotion of education

The EL PAÍS education and training section has been honored with the Prize for the Dissemination of ICTs Applied to Education at the ninth edition of the ITworldEdu conference, organized in Barcelona by the Edutech cluster, which is comprised of more than 40 educational technology companies, and Eurecat - the Technological Center of Catalonia, backed by the Catalan Government. The section head, the EL PAÍS journalist Ana Torres, also received an award for her career within the field of education. 

The education and training section, which is almost three years old, is focused on educational innovation, especially at the university level. Its goal is to guide and help future students find the educational and career pathways that best suit their professional aspirations. 

With the title Transforming Schools, the ninth edition of the ITworldEdu conference, held in Barcelona on March 21 and 22, addressed the transformation of educational methodologies through technology. There was a wide range of presentations, roundtables and workshops geared towards the educational community. 

The personalization of learning methods and advances in neurolearning took center stage, with contributions from speakers such as César Coll, professor of Psychology for Education at the University of Barcelona, and José Ramón Gamo, child neuropsychologist and director of the Masters in Neurolearning at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. 

Another highlight was a plenary session on scientific and technological vocations, given by the Generalitat and the GSMA, as well as a talk on educational experience by the US teacher Monica Burns, a pioneer in the use of technologies in the classroom. 

The EL PAÍS education and training section,published in collaboration with the Emagister platform, hosts 740,000 courses in 12 different countries, provides information on training offered in a range of different formats (face-to-face, semi-online and online) and new learning formats such as the so-called MOOCs, massive open online courses.