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# [[ASEAN]] stands for [[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]]
# [[ASEAN]] stands for [[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]]
# [[ATN]] stands for [[Australian Technology Network]] (of universities)
# [[ATN]] stands for [[Australian Technology Network]] (of universities)
# AUCC stands for the [[Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada]]
# [[AUT]] stands for [[Auckland University of Technology]] - no longer for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_University_Teachers Association of University Teachers] which does not now exist
# [[AUT]] stands for [[Auckland University of Technology]] - no longer for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_University_Teachers Association of University Teachers] which does not now exist
# [[BBE]] stands for [[Business of Borderless Education]] (report)
# [[BBE]] stands for [[Business of Borderless Education]] (report)
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# [[BNU]] stands for [[Beijing Normal University]]
# [[BNU]] stands for [[Beijing Normal University]]
# [[BOU]] stands for the [[Bangladesh Open University]]
# [[BOU]] stands for the [[Bangladesh Open University]]
# [[CANARIE]] stands for [[Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education]]
# [[CANARIE]] stands for [[Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education]], the [[NREN]] in Canada
# [[CARET]] stands for the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge
# [[CARET]] stands for the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge
# [[CCi]] stands for [[Corinthian Colleges]], Inc. ([[US]])
# [[CCi]] stands for [[Corinthian Colleges]], Inc. ([[US]])
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# [[CHEA]] stands for [[Council for Higher Education Accreditation]] (US) - agency
# [[CHEA]] stands for [[Council for Higher Education Accreditation]] (US) - agency
# [[CHEMS]] stands for [[Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service]] - now ceased
# [[CHEMS]] stands for [[Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service]] - now ceased
# [[CMEC]] stands for the [[Council of Ministers of Education, Canada]]
# [[CNED]] stands for [[Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance]]. In French the abbreviation is [[Cned]].
# [[CNED]] stands for [[Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance]]. In French the abbreviation is [[Cned]].
# [[CNAVES]] was the Portuguese agency for quality in higher education. It closed in 2007 and is now replaced by another body.
# [[CNAVES]] was the Portuguese agency for quality in higher education. It closed in 2007 and is now replaced by another body.
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# [[OBHE]] stands for the [[Observatory on Borderless Higher Education]]
# [[OBHE]] stands for the [[Observatory on Borderless Higher Education]]
# [[OECD]] stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development  
# [[OECD]] stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development  
# [[OISE]] stands for the [[Ontario Institute for Studies in Education]] - part of the [http://www.utoronto.ca/ University of Toronto], [[Canada]]
# [[OKI]] stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
# [[OKI]] stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
# [[OLA]] stands for [[Open Learning Agency]] (British Columbia) – to be closed. It could also stand for ''Open Learning Australia''.
# [[OLA]] stands for [[Open Learning Agency]] (British Columbia) – to be closed. It could also stand for ''Open Learning Australia''.
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# [[RLO]] stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
# [[RLO]] stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
# [[RMIT]] stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT) ([[Australia]])
# [[RMIT]] stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT) ([[Australia]])
# [[RRU]] stands for [[Royal Roads University]], [[Canada]]
# [[SCONUL]] stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
# [[SCONUL]] stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
# [[SCORM]] stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
# [[SCORM]] stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
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# [[SFC]] stands for the [[Scottish Funding Council]] ([[UK]])
# [[SFC]] stands for the [[Scottish Funding Council]] ([[UK]])
# [[SFEFC]] stood for the former ''Scottish Further Education Funding Council'', now part of the [[Scottish Funding Council]] ([[UK]])
# [[SFEFC]] stood for the former ''Scottish Further Education Funding Council'', now part of the [[Scottish Funding Council]] ([[UK]])
# [[SFU]] stands for [[Simon Fraser University]], in Vancouver, [[Canada]]
# [[SHEFC]] stands for the former ''Scottish Higher Education Funding Council'', now part of the [[Scottish Funding Council]] ([[UK]])
# [[SHEFC]] stands for the former ''Scottish Higher Education Funding Council'', now part of the [[Scottish Funding Council]] ([[UK]])
# [[SHU]] stands for [[Sheffield Hallam University]] ([[UK]])
# [[SHU]] stands for [[Sheffield Hallam University]] ([[UK]])
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# [[SURFnet]] stands for SURF network ([[Netherlands]])
# [[SURFnet]] stands for SURF network ([[Netherlands]])
# [[SVC]] stands for [[Swiss Virtual Campus]]
# [[SVC]] stands for [[Swiss Virtual Campus]]
# [[TechBC]] stand for the former [[Technical University of British Columbia]], [[Canada]]
# [[TÉLUQ ]] (and various variants) stands for the [[Télé-université]] du Québec, now part of the [[Université du Québec à Montréal]] ([[UQAM]])
# [[TÉLUQ ]] (and various variants) stands for the [[Télé-université]] du Québec, now part of the [[Université du Québec à Montréal]] ([[UQAM]])
# [[TKK]] stands for [[Helsinki University of Technology]] ('''T'''eknillinen '''k'''orkea'''k'''oulu)
# [[TKK]] stands for [[Helsinki University of Technology]] ('''T'''eknillinen '''k'''orkea'''k'''oulu)

Revision as of 09:48, 23 August 2008

This is (to be) a full list of abbreviations for organisations and other activities of relevance to Re.ViCa.

A number of technical abbreviations are added - these do not link to Re.ViCa wiki pages. They are included as they are codes to avoid when creating or selecting codes for institutions and other entities.

Two-character codes are discouraged except when they are country codes but some are so common that we have been forced to adopt them.

Single-character codes are forbidden as they are used for various technical purposes.

Editors! Always check abbreviations first with Google and Acronym finder!

> Index


Abbreviations

(other than 2-character country codes and 1-character codes for technical use)

The following list has been extracted from the list developed for The e-University Compendium and then further developed.

It is aimed to contain the standard abbreviations for all entities, institutions, programmes (especially MELIs etc) and projects of interest in the countries of most interest - plus for open/distance teaching universities across the world.

Added 8 June 2008: FELI, GELI, MELI and NELI.

  1. AAOU stands for the Asian Association of Open Universities
  2. AIOU stands for the Allama Iqbal Open University (Pakistan)
  3. ANCED stands for the Asociación Nacional de Centros de e-Learning y Distancia (Spain)
  4. AUQA stands for the Australian Universities Quality Agency
  5. ARIADNE stands for Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe
  6. ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations
  7. ATN stands for Australian Technology Network (of universities)
  8. AUCC stands for the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
  9. AUT stands for Auckland University of Technology - no longer for Association of University Teachers which does not now exist
  10. BBE stands for Business of Borderless Education (report)
  11. BCOU stands for British Columbia Open University (now absorbed into Thompson Rivers University)
  12. BECTa was the former name for Becta
  13. Becta stands for British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (UK) but the long form is rarely used now
  14. BFSU stands for Beijing Foreign Studies University
  15. BNU stands for Beijing Normal University
  16. BOU stands for the Bangladesh Open University
  17. CANARIE stands for Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education, the NREN in Canada
  18. CARET stands for the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge
  19. CCi stands for Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (US)
  20. CCRTVU stands for the China Central Radio & TV University
  21. CERNET stands for the China Education and Research Network
  22. CETIS stands for Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards but the long form is rarely used now (UK)
  23. CHEA stands for Council for Higher Education Accreditation (US) - agency
  24. CHEMS stands for Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service - now ceased
  25. CMEC stands for the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
  26. CNED stands for Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance. In French the abbreviation is Cned.
  27. CNAVES was the Portuguese agency for quality in higher education. It closed in 2007 and is now replaced by another body.
  28. CNFD stands for Campus Numérique Francophone de Dakar
  29. COL stands for Commonwealth of Learning
  30. CRUP stands for Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas (Portugal)
  31. CVU stands for Canadian Virtual University. It was also used in the past for Clyde Virtual University.
  32. DCSF is the Department for Children, Schools and Families of the UK
  33. DDU stands for the Dutch Digital University (we do not use the two-letter abbreviation DU commonly used in Netherlands
  34. DELNI is the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland
  35. DEST is a department now merged into DEEWR
  36. DEEWR is the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia
  37. DETYA stood for Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (Australia), later called DEST
  38. DfEE stands for the former Department for Education and Employment of the UK, a very old name for DfES
  39. DfES stands for the former Department for Education and Skills of the UK, now split into DCSF and DIUS
  40. DFID stands for Department for International Development of the UK
  41. DIUS is the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of the UK
  42. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk (no longer Digital Video Disk)
  43. EADTU stands for the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
  44. eChina stands for the Sino-UK eLearning Programme
  45. ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System, sometimes called the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
  46. EFQM stands for European Foundation for Quality Management
  47. ELWA stood for Education and Learning Wales but is no longer used - see HEFCW
  48. ELDDA stands for e-Learning Digital Dashboard
  49. EML stands for Educational Markup Language
  50. eMM and EMM stand for the e-Learning Maturity Model for benchmarking e-learning
  51. ENQA stands for the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
  52. ESRC stands for Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
  53. EUNITE stands for European University Network for Information Technology in Education
  54. e-U stands for the UK e-University (the one that became UKeU)
  55. EU stands for European Union
  56. FADE stands for the Finnish Association for Distance Education
  57. FE stands for Further Education (post-school, non-degree courses)
  58. FELI stands for Failed E-Learning Initiative
  59. FVU stands for Finnish Virtual University
  60. GELI stands for Giant E-Learning Initiative
  61. GU8 stands for Global U8 Consortium
  62. GUA stands for Global University Alliance, but this phrase has multiple meanings
  63. GVU stands for Global Virtual University
  64. HE stands for Higher Education (universities and similar institutions)
  65. HECS stands for the Higher Education Contribution Scheme, now replaced by the Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP)
  66. HEFCE stands for Higher Education Funding Council for England (UK)
  67. HEFCW stands for Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (UK)
  68. HEI stands for Higher Education Institution
  69. HERO stands for Higher Education and Research Opportunities (UK)
  70. HESA stands for Higher Education South Africa, an association of Rectors
  71. HETAC stands for the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (Ireland)
  72. HKU stands for University of Hong Kong
  73. HUT used to be used for Helsinki University of Technology but we prefer TKK (Teknillinen KorkeaKoulu)
  74. ICDE stands for the International Council for Open and Distance Education
  75. ICDL stands for the former International Centre for Distance Learning (at UKOU) - the database is still available to subscribers
  76. IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
  77. IMS used to stand for Instructional Management System (the initials IMS are no longer an acronym)
  78. ITESM stands for Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Monterrey - see Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
  79. JANET stands for Joint Academic NETwork (alleged originally to be a name significant to one of the original developers) (UK)
  80. JIU stands for Jones International University
  81. JPPSG stands for Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group (UK Higher Education)
  82. KNOU stands for Korea National Open University
  83. LSDA stands for the former Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK) - now split into LSN and QIA
  84. LTSC stands for Learning Technology Standards Committee (of IEEE)
  85. MELI stands for Major E-Learning Initiative
  86. MESI stands for Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (Russia)
  87. MOO stands for Multi-User Dungeons, Object Oriented
  88. NADE stands for the Norwegian Association for Distance Education
  89. NDEC stands for the National Distance Education Centre of Ireland - Oscail in Irish
  90. NELI stands for Notable E-Learning Initiative
  91. NHSU - and sometimes NHSu - stands for National Health Service University (UK)
  92. NKI stands for NKI Distance Education, the main distance learning provider in Norway
  93. NKS stands for NKS Nettstudier, sometimes called NKS Distance Education, Norway (to be carefully distinguished from NKI)
  94. NOKUT stands for Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education
  95. NOU stands for Norway Opening Universities, the innovation programme in e-learning for HE in Norway
  96. NREN stands for National Research and Education Network
  97. NSHU stands for the Swedish Agency for Networks and Cooperation in Higher Education, formerly called the Swedish Net University Agency - be careful to distinguish this from NHSU, the NHS University of the UK
  98. NUCCAT stands for Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
  99. NUS stands for National University of Singapore
  100. NZQA stands for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority
  101. OBHE stands for the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education
  102. OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  103. OISE stands for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - part of the University of Toronto, Canada
  104. OKI stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
  105. OLA stands for Open Learning Agency (British Columbia) – to be closed. It could also stand for Open Learning Australia.
  106. OPNZ stands for the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
  107. OU is a common abbreviation for UK Open University - we try to use UKOU instead
  108. OUHK stands for Open University of Hong Kong
  109. OUJ stands for the Open University of Japan, formerly the University of the Air
  110. OUN stands for Open Universiteit Nederland
  111. OUSL stands for the Open University of Sri Lanka
  112. PANdora stands for Pan Asia Networking distance and open resource access, a study project
  113. PnM or PNM stand for Pick&Mix
  114. PROMETEUS stands for PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society
  115. PRTVU stands for one of the provincial-level Radio & TV universities in China
  116. PUW stands for Polski Uniwersytet Wirtualny, the Polish Virtual University
  117. QAA stands for Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education in the UK)
  118. QCA stands for Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (UK)
  119. RIO stands for Reusable Information Object (as at Cisco)
  120. RLO stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
  121. RMIT stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT) (Australia)
  122. RRU stands for Royal Roads University, Canada
  123. SCONUL stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
  124. SCORM stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
  125. SCQF stands for Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (UK)
  126. SFC stands for the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
  127. SFEFC stood for the former Scottish Further Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
  128. SFU stands for Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, Canada
  129. SHEFC stands for the former Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
  130. SHU stands for Sheffield Hallam University (UK)
  131. STOU stands for Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (Thailand)
  132. SURF stands for the Dutch educational network (Netherlands)
  133. SURFnet stands for SURF network (Netherlands)
  134. SVC stands for Swiss Virtual Campus
  135. TechBC stand for the former Technical University of British Columbia, Canada
  136. TÉLUQ (and various variants) stands for the Télé-université du Québec, now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
  137. TKK stands for Helsinki University of Technology (Teknillinen korkeakoulu)
  138. TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (UK)
  139. TQEF stands for Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (UK)
  140. TRU stands for Thompson Rivers University (Canada)
  141. U21 stands for Universitas 21
  142. UAb stands for Universidade Aberta (Portugal), the Portuguese Open University
  143. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions System (UK)
  144. UCISA stands for the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UK)
  145. Ufi (or sometimes UFI) stands for University for Industry, who deliver learndirect (UK)
  146. UHI stands for University of the Highlands and Islands (Scotland) (UK)
  147. UKeU is the UK e-University, more properly called UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited
  148. UKEU stands for UKeU
  149. UKOLN stands for UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UK)
  150. UKOU stands for UK Open University
  151. ULP stands for Université Louis Pasteur (France)
  152. UNE stands for University of New England (US)
  153. UNED stands for Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
  154. UNINETT is the National Education and Research Network for Norway
  155. UniSA stands for University of South Australia
  156. UOC stands for Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the Open University of Catalonia
  157. UOPX stands for University of Phoenix, (US)
  158. UPM stands for Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the Technical University of Madrid (Spain)
  159. UQAM stands for the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada)
  160. USQ stands for University of Southern Queensland
  161. UT stands for University of Twente (Netherlands) but also Universitas Terbuka (Indonesia) - do not use
  162. UVF stands for Université Virtuelle Francophone
  163. UVT stands for Université Virtuelle de Tunis
  164. VHB stands for Bavarian Virtual University (Germany)
  165. VUSME stands for Virtual University for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
  166. WCET stands for Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
  167. WGU stands for Western Governors University
  168. WTO stands for World Trade Organisation
  169. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language
  170. YCMOU stands for Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, (India)
  171. ZOU stands for Zimbabwe Open University

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