Abbreviations

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!

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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. ALFA stands for América Latina - Formación Académica, a programme of cooperation between higher education institutions of the European Union and Latin America
4. ANCED stands for the Asociación Nacional de Centros de e-Learning y Distancia (Spain)
5. AUQA stands for the Australian Universities Quality Agency
6. ARIADNE stands for Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe
7. ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations
8. ATN stands for Australian Technology Network (of universities)
9. AUCC stands for the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
10. AULP stands for Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa (Association of Universities in the Language of Portuguese)
11. AUT stands for Auckland University of Technology - no longer for Association of University Teachers which does not now exist
12. BBE stands for Business of Borderless Education (report)
13. BCOU stands for British Columbia Open University (now absorbed into Thompson Rivers University)
14. BECTa was the former name for Becta
15. Becta stands for British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (UK) but the long form is rarely used now
16. BFSU stands for Beijing Foreign Studies University
17. BNU stands for Beijing Normal University
18. BOU stands for the Bangladesh Open University
19. BTVU stands for Beijing Radio & TV University‎ (China)
20. CANARIE stands for Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education, the NREN in Canada
21. CARET stands for the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge
22. CCi stands for Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (US)
23. CCRTVU stands for the China Central Radio & TV University
24. CERNET stands for the China Education and Research Network
25. CETIS stands for Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards but the long form is rarely used now (UK)
26. CHEA stands for Council for Higher Education Accreditation (US) - agency
27. CHEMS stands for Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service - now ceased
28. CMEC stands for the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
29. CNED stands for Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance. In French the abbreviation is Cned.
30. CNAVES was the Portuguese agency for quality in higher education. It closed in 2007 and is now replaced by another body.
31. CNFD stands for Campus Numérique Francophone de Dakar
32. COL stands for Commonwealth of Learning
33. CPLP stands for Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (Community of Portuguese Language Countries),
34. CRUP stands for Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas (Portugal)
35. CVU stands for Canadian Virtual University. It was also used in the past for Clyde Virtual University.
36. DCSF is the Department for Children, Schools and Families of the UK
37. DCU stands for Dublin City University, Ireland - the host of OSCAIL
38. DDU stands for the Dutch Digital University (we do not use the two-letter abbreviation DU commonly used in Netherlands
39. DELNI is the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland
40. DEST is a department now merged into DEEWR
41. DEEWR is the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia
42. DETYA stood for Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (Australia), later called DEST
43. DfEE stands for the former Department for Education and Employment of the UK, a very old name for DfES
44. DfES stands for the former Department for Education and Skills of the UK, now split into DCSF and DIUS
45. DFID stands for Department for International Development of the UK
46. DGAU stands for Dennis Gabor Applied University (Hungary)
47. DISC stands for Distance and Educational Study Center (Germany)
48. DIUS is the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of the UK
49. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk (no longer Digital Video Disk)
50. EADTU stands for the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
51. eChina stands for the Sino-UK eLearning Programme
52. ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System, sometimes called the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
53. EeU stands for Estonian e-University
54. EFQM stands for European Foundation for Quality Management
55. ELWA stood for Education and Learning Wales but is no longer used - see HEFCW
56. ELDDA stands for e-Learning Digital Dashboard
57. EML stands for Educational Markup Language
58. eMM and EMM stand for the e-Learning Maturity Model for benchmarking e-learning
59. ENQA stands for the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
60. ESRC stands for Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
61. EUNITE stands for European University Network for Information Technology in Education
62. e-U stands for the UK e-University (the one that became UKeU)
63. EU stands for European Union
64. FADE stands for the Finnish Association for Distance Education
65. FFCJ stands for Florida Community College‎ at Jacksonville, US
66. FE stands for Further Education (post-school, non-degree courses)
67. FELI stands for Failed E-Learning Initiative
68. FVU stands for Finnish Virtual University
69. GELI stands for Giant E-Learning Initiative
70. GTCS stands for Georgia Technical College System (US)
71. GU8 stands for Global U8 Consortium
72. GUA stands for Global University Alliance, but this phrase has multiple meanings
73. GVU stands for Global Virtual University
74. GVTC stands for Georgia Virtual Technical College (US)
75. HCMCOU stands for Ho Chi Minh City Open University (Vietnam)
76. HE stands for Higher Education (universities and similar institutions)
77. HECS stands for the Higher Education Contribution Scheme, now replaced by the Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP)
78. HEFCE stands for Higher Education Funding Council for England (UK)
79. HEFCW stands for Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (UK)
80. HEI stands for Higher Education Institution
81. HERO stands for Higher Education and Research Opportunities (UK)
82. HESA stands for Higher Education South Africa, an association of Rectors
83. HETAC stands for the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (Ireland)
84. HOU stands for the Hellenic Open University (Greece)
85. HKU stands for University of Hong Kong
86. HNRTVU stands for Henan Radio & TV University‎ (China)
87. HUT used to be used for Helsinki University of Technology but we prefer TKK (Teknillinen KorkeaKoulu)
88. ICDE stands for the International Council for Open and Distance Education
89. ICDL stands for the former International Centre for Distance Learning (at UKOU) - the database is still available to subscribers
90. IEC stands for the Idaho Electronic Campus
91. IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
92. IMRTVU stands for Inner Mongolia Radio & TV University
93. IMS used to stand for Instructional Management System (the initials IMS are no longer an acronym)
94. ITESM stands for Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Monterrey - see Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
95. IUA stands for the Irish Universities Association, Ireland (Republic)
96. IVC stands for the Illinois Virtual Campus (US)
97. JANET stands for Joint Academic NETwork (alleged originally to be a name significant to one of the original developers) (UK)
98. JIU stands for Jones International University
99. JPPSG stands for Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group (UK Higher Education)
100. JSRTVU stands for Jiangsu Radio & TV University (China)
101. KNOU stands for Korea National Open University
102. KYVC and KYVU stand for Kentucky Virtual University
103. LSDA stands for the former Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK) - now split into LSN and QIA
104. LTSC stands for Learning Technology Standards Committee (of IEEE)
105. MELI stands for Major E-Learning Initiative
106. MESI stands for Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (Russia)
107. MEXT stands for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
108. MOO stands for Multi-User Dungeons, Object Oriented
109. MPBOU stands for Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University (India)
110. MVHS stands for Michigan Virtual High School (US) - see Michigan Virtual University
111. MVS stands for Michigan Virtual School (US) - see Michigan Virtual University
112. MVU stands for Michigan Virtual University (US)
113. NADE stands for the Norwegian Association for Distance Education
114. NDEC stands for the National Distance Education Centre of Ireland - Oscail in Irish
115. NELI stands for Notable E-Learning Initiative
116. NIME stands for the National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan
117. NJVU stands for New Jersey Virtual University (US)
118. NKI stands for NKI Distance Education, the main distance learning provider in Norway
119. NKS stands for NKS Nettstudier, sometimes called NKS Distance Education, Norway (to be carefully distinguished from NKI)
120. NOKUT stands for Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education
121. NOU stands for Norway Opening Universities, the innovation programme in e-learning for HE in Norway
122. NPTEL stands for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (India)
123. NQAI stands for the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland
124. NREN stands for National Research and Education Network
125. 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
126. NSOU stands for Netaji Subhas Open University (India)
127. NSU stands for Nova Southeastern University (US)
128. NUCCAT stands for Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
129. NUS stands for National University of Singapore
130. NVU stands for Norwegian Networked University, an association in Norway
131. NZQA stands for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority
132. OBHE stands for the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education
133. OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
134. OISE stands for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - part of the University of Toronto, Canada
135. OKI stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
136. OLA stands for Open Learning Agency (British Columbia) – to be closed. It could also stand for Open Learning Australia.
137. OLF stands for Open Learning Foundation in the United Kingdom
138. OPNZ stands for the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
139. OU is a common abbreviation for UK Open University - we try to use UKOU instead
140. OUHK stands for Open University of Hong Kong
141. OUJ stands for the Open University of Japan, formerly the University of the Air
142. OUN stands for Open Universiteit Nederland
143. OUSL stands for the Open University of Sri Lanka
144. PANdora stands for Pan Asia Networking distance and open resource access, a study project
145. PnM or PNM stand for Pick&Mix
146. PNU stands for Payame Noor University (Iran)
147. PUP OUS stands for Polytechnic University of the Philippines Open University System
148. PROMETEUS stands for PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society
149. PRTVU stands for one of the provincial-level Radio & TV universities in China
150. PSU stands for Pennsylvania State University (US) - see Penn State World Campus
151. PUW stands for Polski Uniwersytet Wirtualny, the Polish Virtual University
152. QAA stands for Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education in the UK)
153. QCA stands for Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (UK)
154. QOU stands for Al-Quds Open University (Palestine)
155. RIO stands for Reusable Information Object (as at Cisco)
156. RLO stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
157. RMIT stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT) (Australia)
158. RRU stands for Royal Roads University (Canada)
159. SCONUL stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
160. SCORM stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
161. SCQF stands for Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (UK)
162. SCRTVU stands for Sichuan Radio & TV University (China)
163. SFC stands for the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
164. SFEFC stood for the former Scottish Further Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
165. SFU stands for Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, Canada
166. SHEFC stands for the former Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
167. SHU stands for Sheffield Hallam University (UK)
168. STOU stands for Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (Thailand)
169. SURF stands for the Dutch educational network (Netherlands)
170. SURFnet stands for SURF network (Netherlands)
171. SVC stands for Swiss Virtual Campus
172. SXRTVU stands for Shaanxi Radio and Television University (China)
173. SYTVU stands for Shenyang Radio & TV University (China)
174. TechBC stand for the former Technical University of British Columbia, Canada
175. TÉLUQ (and various variants) stands for the Télé-université du Québec, now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
176. TJRTVU stands for Tianjin Radio & TV University, China
177. TKK stands for Helsinki University of Technology (Teknillinen korkeakoulu)
178. TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (UK)
179. TNOU stands for Tamil Nadu Open University (India)
180. TQEF stands for Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (UK)
181. TRU stands for Thompson Rivers University (Canada)
182. U21 stands for Universitas 21
183. UAb stands for Universidade Aberta (Portugal), the Portuguese Open University
184. UAE stands for United Arab Emirates (the country)
185. UB stands for University of Baltimore (US)
186. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions System (UK)
187. UCF stands for University of Central Florida (US)
188. UCISA stands for the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UK)
189. UEF stands for the University of Eastern Finland
190. Ufi (or sometimes UFI) stands for University for Industry, who deliver learndirect (UK)
191. UHI stands for University of the Highlands and Islands (Scotland) (UK)
192. UKeU is the UK e-University, more properly called UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited
193. UKEU stands for UKeU
194. UKOLN stands for UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UK)
195. UKOU stands for UK Open University
196. UNE stands for University of New England (US)
197. UMUC stands for University of Maryland University College (US)
198. UNE stands for University of New England (US)
199. UNED stands for Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
200. UNINETT is the National Education and Research Network for Norway
201. UniSA stands for University of South Australia
202. UNISIM or UniSIM stands for SIM University (Singapore)
203. UOC stands for Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the Open University of Catalonia
204. UOPX stands for University of Phoenix, (US)
205. UPM stands for Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the Technical University of Madrid (Spain)
206. UPRTOU stands for U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University (India)
207. UQAM stands for the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada)
208. USQ stands for University of Southern Queensland
209. UT stands for University of Twente (Netherlands) but also Universitas Terbuka (Indonesia) - do not use
210. UTPL stands for Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador)
211. UUK stands for Universities UK
212. UVF stands for Université Virtuelle Francophone
213. UVT stands for Université Virtuelle de Tunis
214. VHB stands for Bavarian Virtual University (Germany)
215. VMOUstands for Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University (India)
216. VUSME stands for Virtual University for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
217. WCET stands for Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
218. WGU stands for Western Governors University
219. WTO stands for World Trade Organisation
220. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language
221. YCMOU stands for Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (India)
222. YRTVU stands for Yunnan Radio & TV University (China)
223. ZFH stands for Zentralstelle für Fernstudien an Fachhochschulen (Germany)
224. ZOU stands for Zimbabwe Open University

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