Key Challenges in 21st Century Learning: A Way Forward towards Sustainable Higher Educational Institutions

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors, 

This manuscript does an excellent job demonstrating significant Key Challenges of sustainable Higher Educational Institution. This paper has played role of bridge in filling knowledge gap of 21st centuray sustainable HEI’s. This research paper has highlighted actually a very important issue and is a good reminder for all researchers to pay attention to the uplift new ways and trends to improve teaching and ensure learning in the classroom, especially at the higher educational level.

Author Response

Comment: This manuscript does an excellent job demonstrating significant Key Challenges of sustainable Higher Educational Institutions. This paper has played the role of bridge in filling the knowledge gap of 21st century sustainable HEI’s. This research paper has highlighted actually a very important issue and is a good reminder for all researchers to pay attention to the uplifting new ways and trends to improve teaching and ensure learning in the classroom, especially at the higher educational level.

Author Response: Dear Reviewer Thanks for the compliment. We tried our best to explore the key factors towards sustainable higher education.

Reviewer 2 Report

A very interesting and useful article that is definitely of high interest to all of educators, teachers in University who are confronted with the recently new realm of being exposed to technological world.

Here are some very minor comments:

1) Methodology: how many people responded to your questionnaire? What does "almost" 172 mean?

For all five challenges you present, what countries/continents are you referring to? If the world, make it explicit. For example, you use % when comparing 2017 year with 2014, what region are you talking about?

Table 3: you have "critical thinking" listed twice

For the second survey, I see some responses include kids and teens. Are you still focusing on Higher education? You need to make it clear, so there is a better flow and better relevance to higher education.

Could you please define Social Media-Based Learning slightly more? How will it help students, using social media achieve better learning?

 

 

 

Author Response

Comment: A very interesting and useful article that is definitely of high interest to all of the educators, teachers in University who are confronted with the recently new realm of being exposed to the technological world. Here are some very minor comments:

1) Methodology: how many people responded to your questionnaire? What does "almost" 172 mean?

Author Response: Thanks for the comment. Sorry for this mistake. It is corrected in the paper.

Comment: For all five challenges you present, what countries/continents are you referring to? If the world, make it explicit. For example, you use % when comparing 2017 year with 2014, what region are you talking about?

Author Response: Yes, it is a very valuable suggestion. I added the limitation of the study as the experts were from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Comment: Table 3: you have "critical thinking" listed twice

Author Response: Yes, thanks for the suggestion. It is a mistake and was deleted from table 3.

Comment: For the second survey, I see some responses include kids and teens. Are you still focusing on Higher education? You need to make it clear, so there is a better flow and better relevance to higher education.

Author Response: thanks for highlighting this mistake. it is students not kids. It is corrected throughout the paper. This paper focuses on higher education only.     

Comment: Could you please define Social Media-Based Learning slightly more? How will it help students, using social media achieve better learning?

Author Response: Thanks for the suggestion. Extra para has been added to the paper.

Reviewer 3 Report

The sample is not representative.

There are some errata in quoting or grammar. Please see the comments on the paper.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Comment: The sample is not representative.

Author Response: Thanks for the suggestion sir. The sample supporting references are added in the paper for such studies. It is supported by reference because the population for such studies are not fixed numbers therefore this approach was adopted.

Comment: There are some errata in quoting or grammar. Please see the comments on the paper.

Author Response: Yes, thanks and sorry for these mistakes. All highlighted mistakes in paper are corrected in revised form. The missing citation is also added in the paper. All citations are modified as per journal requirements.