Convergence is an opportunity to determine the possibility to train students in social skills, assuming that our universities provide valuable training in specific technical and professional skills. This study presents the strategy followed in the Mines and Energy Engineering School of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM from its name in Spanish) to enhance social learning through a progr...

Many companies have realized the immense potential of Social Media (SM) insights and have started to use concepts of Social Media Analytics (SMA) to reveal them. However, despite the importance of SMA, executives frequently hand off the topic to IT departments, instead of being actively involved in the business alignment of SMA. While existing SMA literature frequently identifies this need, it ...

In recent years, widely spreading botnets in social networks are becoming a major security threat to both social networking services and the privacy of their users. In order to have a better understanding of the dynamics of these botnets, defenders should model the process of their propagation. However, previous studies on botnet propagation model have tended to focus solely on characterizing t...

1 Department of Curriculum and Instruction, [email protected] 2 Department of Curriculum and Instruction, [email protected] 3 Department of Biomedical Engineering, [email protected] Abstract This paper presents the results of a study comparing student learning in a challenge-based and a traditional course in biotransport. Collaborating learning scientists and biomedica...

In defense-in-depth, humans have always been the weakest link in cybersecurity. However, unlike common threats, social engineering poses vulnerabilities not directly quantifiable penetration testing. Most skilled engineers trick users into giving up information voluntarily through attacks like phishing and adware. Social Engineering (SE) media is structurally similar to regular posts but contai...