Working Day

Thursday October 6, 2022

10:00 a.m. Social networks, dropout and academic performance of university students. Dissemination Day of the ABANREDES project. Inauguration: Vice Chancellor for Students, Rosa María de la Fuente Fernández, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Tourism, Mª Francisca Blasco López, and Deputy Director of the Center for Institutional Intelligence, Víctor Manuel Herreros Villanueva. Guest Lecture by Professor Alberto Sánchez Rojo (UCM). Venue: Faculty of Commerce and Tourism, Germán Bernácer Room (ground floor) or online.

Program Working day

Opening 10:00 - 10:30: Vice-Rector for Students Rosa María de la Fuente Fernández, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Tourism María Francisca Blasco López and Deputy Director of Institutional Intelligence Víctor Manuel Herreros Villanueva.

• 10:30 - 11:00: José Luis Arroyo-Susana Carabias (ICADE): Factors that condition, support and explain the performance in mathematics of ADE students (and their teachers).
• 11:00 - 11:30: Marina Segura (UCM): Prediction of university dropout with machine learning: is the order of choice relevant?
• 11:30 - 12:00: Pilar Gago (UCM): The impact of the use of social networks on university learning. a recent experience in two Madrid universities.

Coffee break: 12:00 - 12:30

• 12:30 - 13:15: Alberto Sánchez Rojo (UCM): Pedagogy of hyperconnection: educational effects of a life in networks.
• Discussion table: 13:15 - 13:45

Closing: 13:45: Adolfo Hernández Estrada and María Fernández Mellizo-Soto: Principal investigators of the project.