Professional and Academic Digital Identity Workshop for Higher Education Students

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript titled “Professional and academic digital identity workshop for higher education students” addresses the concept of digital identity and awareness raising actions for university students. While the overall approach is fine and the number of participating students within the study is indeed sufficient to deduce results, the manuscript leaves me with some open questions, I would like to see addressed.

Firstly, how do the authors ensure a decent level of quality concerning the answer of the students. In that regard, are the students provided any supplementary materials that support them in answering the questions within the canvas? What other support do they receive. It would be good to provide a complete methodology/process description along with activities that the reader can replicate the approach properly. Also, this would open up the possibility for the authors to explain implementation difficulties and potential fixes, as underlying methodological actions to sustain the results demonstrated in the survey.

Secondly, concerning the background, the authors mix a lot of the concepts of digital skills, competences, and literacy. While these are related, they are not the same. Also, I do miss the discussion of the bigger picture, for example, along the concept of digital intelligence, where digital identity is a specific part, and how the approach presented by the authors can also have a positive and sustainable effect on the other sectors, i.e., being a holistic action.

Dostál, J., Wang, X., Steingartner, W., & Nuangchalerm, P. (2017, September). Digital intelligence-new concept in context of future school of education. In Proceedings of ICERI2017 Conference 16th-18th November.

Thirdly, the current insights and lessons-learned for practitioners are quite low. The authors should elaborate more on these, in order to provide not only an incentive of adoption of their approach, but also to indicate modifications, if the approach is transferred to other students groups, e.g., more senior ones, or postgraduate students that (e.g., MBA) that might be at a higher professional level, yet are not necessarily on a higher academic level.

Author Response

We would like to thank the reviewers for their time and enriching contributions. We reply below with the modifications added after analysing the comments.

We found this very interesting and have added this information in the methodology, in “Tools for face-to-face workshop” subsection, including the reference to the slides used in order that other authors can use it. These slides are open resources published online and contain all the content of the workshop and activities, so they would allow full replication and I have indicated this.

The canvas has been developed for PhD and Master students and other general professionals in MOOC courses and it is adequate, following the reviewer's indications we have improved the description of that part in the conclusions. We wanted to focus this article only on the results of undergraduate students, although, as we have indicated, it has been useful for other educational levels.

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors discuss a very interesting and time -related topic related to digital identification on the Internet associated with university education.

The authors present an interesting introduction supported by appropriate literature sources.

Chapter 2 is a good complement.

The mere presentation of the methodology and results does not raise my objections.

Technical attention: Drawings, in particular 3.4.5 are poorly readable by argumentation for the small font towards the entire canvas of the drawing. The legend is practically unnecessary because nothing can be seen anyway. That is why it needs to be improved.

I like that in the discussion the authors really conduct discussions of their results.

Finally, a summary, which is also what it should be.

Author Response

Thank you very much for the interesting review and comments, indeed the canvases did not look good, we have increased the size of the images to make them look better.