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Opinion2026.06.28Liz Smith, Dawn Gilmore, Chinh Nguyen, Paul Wiseman, Caitlin Yolland & Jim Frederickson · Needed Now

Modality does not equal risk

Summary

Online-education practitioners challenge the assumption that physical attendance alone assures learning.

They accept targeted controls while arguing for layered evidence across a program.

Their central trade-off is access: returning to examination centres may exclude learners without resolving the underlying quality of assessment design.

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