[aaplok]

> Distance education is a tiny percentage of higher education though.

It is about a third of the students I teach, which amounts to several hundreds per term. It may be niche, but it is not insignificant, and definitely a problem for some of us.

> Even for distance education though, proctored testing centers have been around longer than the internet.

I don't know how much experience you have with those. Mine is extensive enough that I have a personal opinion that they are not scalable (which is the focus of the comment I was replying to). If you have hundreds of students disseminated around the world, organising a proctored exam is a logistical challenge.

It is not a problem at many universities yet, because they haven't jumped on the bandwagon. However domestic markets are becoming saturated, visas are harder to get for international students, and there is a demand for online education. I would be surprised that it doesn't develop more in the near future.

[sarchertech]

I agree that proctoring across hundreds of locations globally could be a challenge.

I think the end result though is that schools either limit their students to a smaller number of locations where they can have proctored exams, or they don’t and they effectively lose their credentialing value.