This book analyses the range of potential measures national quality assurance agencies may have to employ to deal with the new issues caused by Cross Border Higher Education (CBHE). The expansion of CBHE raises quality problems, which are currently assessed differently depending on the countries concerned. This has been exacerbated by the growth of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) which have developed very quickly and can be prone to rogue providers. This book considers the steps that have already been taken to ensure quality as well as those ahead. It is important that the swift growth of CBHE is not just seen as a means to increase the revenues of higher education institutions faced with decreasing public funding but also as a means to keep educational standards high.  

Chapter 1. Introduction; Alberto Amaral.- PART I: ANALYSING THE PROBLEM.- Chapter 2. Crossing the Border: Some Views, Largely Historical and Occasionally Heretical, On the Sudden Enthusiasm for an Exceedingly Ancient Practice; Guy Neave.- Chapter 3. The Business of Cross-Border Higher Education; Jamil Salmi and Orlanda Tavares.- PART II: THE VIEW OF STAKEHOLDERS.- Chapter 4. The Shift to Strategic Internationalisation Approaches; Andrée Sursock.- Chapter 5. The View of the European Students’ Union on CBHE; Tiago Martins.- PART III: THE SERVICES DIRECTIVE.- Chapter 6. Cross-Border Higher Education and the Services Directive: Importance, Protection, Success; Luigi Berlinguer.- Chapter 7. The New Old Debate. Free Movement of Services and the Freedom of Establishment within the Internal European Market: Does the Directive 2006/123 EC Move Past Education? Concerning the Border of National Sovereignty within the EU; Jan de Groof.- Chapter 8. Cross-Border Higher Education: The Situation at European Level - Comparing National Implementation; Lukas Bischof.- PART IV: NATIONAL CASES OF CROSS-BORDER HIGHER EDUCATION.- Chapter 9. National Cases of Cross-Border Higher Education: Austria; Elsa Hackl.- Chapter 10. National Cases of Cross-Border Higher Education: The Experience of the UK; Stephen Jackson.- PART V: QUALITY PROBLEMS IN ALTERNATIVE CASES.- Chapter 11. GATS and the “OECD/UNESCO Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-Border Higher Education”: Its Relevance for Quality Assurance in the Past and the Future; Achim Hopbach.- Chapter 12. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs); Joaquim Ferreira.- PART VI: QUALITY AGENCIES AND CROSS-BORDER HIGHER EDUCATION.- Chapter 13. Quality Assurance of Cross-Border Higher Education – A Case for Collaboration between National Quality Agencies; Padraig Walsh.- Chapter 14. The Other Side of the Atlantic. Quality, E-learning and Alternative Providers of Higher Education; Judith Eaton.- PART VII: CONCLUSION.- Chapter 15. Conclusions; Maria João Rosa, Cláudia Sarrico and Orlanda Tavares.