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.

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Abbreviations other than country codes

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

1. AAOU stands for the Asian Association of Open Universities
2. AIOU stands for the Allama Iqbal Open University (Pakistan)
3. ARIADNE stands for Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe
4. ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations
5. ATN stands for Australian Technology Network (of universities)
6. BBE stands for Business of Borderless Education (report)
7. BCOU stands for British Columbia Open University (now absorbed into Thompson Rivers University)
8. BECTa was the former name for Becta
9. Becta stands for British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (UK) but the long form is rarely used now
10. BFSU stands for Beijing Foreign Studies University
11. BOU stands for the Bangladesh Open University
12. CANARIE stands for Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education
13. CETIS stands for Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards but the long form is rarely used now
14. CHEA stands for Council for Higher Education Accreditation (US) - agency
15. CHEMS stands for Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service - now ceased
16. CNED stands for Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance. In French the abbreviation is Cned.
17. CNFD stands for Campus Numérique Francophone de Dakar
18. COL stands for Commonwealth of Learning
19. CVU stands for Canadian Virtual University. It was also used in the past for Clyde Virtual University.
20. DCSF is the Department for Children, Schools and Families of the UK
21. DDU stands for the Dutch Digital University (we do not use the two-letter abbreviation DU commonly used in Netherlands
22. DELNI is the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland
23. DEST is a department now merged into DEEWR
24. DEEWR is the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia
25. DETYA stood for Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (Australia), later called DEST
26. DfEE stands for the former Department for Education and Employment of the UK, a very old name for DfES
27. DfES stands for the former Department for Education and Skills of the UK, now split into DCSF and DIUS
28. DFID stands for Department for International Development of the UK
29. DIUS is the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of the UK
30. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk (no longer Digital Video Disk)
31. ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System, sometimes called the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
32. EFQM stands for European Foundation for Quality Management
33. ELWA stood for Education and Learning Wales but is no longer used - see HEFCW
34. EML stands for Educational Markup Language
35. ESRC stands for Economic and Social Research Council
36. EUNITE stands for European University Network for Information Technology in Education
37. e-U stands for the UK e-University (the one that became UKeU)
38. EU stands for European Union
39. FE stands for Further Education (post-school, non-degree courses)
40. FVU stands for Finnish Virtual University
41. GU8 stands for Global U8 Consortium
42. GUA stands for Global University Alliance, but this phrase has multiple meanings
43. GVU stands for Global Virtual University
44. HE stands for Higher Education (universities and similar institutions)
45. HECS stands for Higher Education Contributions System
46. HEFCE stands for Higher Education Funding Council for England
47. HEFCW stands for Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
48. HEI stands for Higher Education Institution
49. HERO stands for Higher Education and Research Opportunities
50. HKU stands for University of Hong Kong
51. HUT used to be used for Helsinki University of Technology but we prefer TKK (Teknillinen KorkeaKoulu)
52. ICDL stands for International Centre for Distance Learning (at OU)
53. IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
54. IMS stands for Instructional Management System (the original meaning)
55. IMS stands for Originally stood for the Instructional Management System Project (the initials IMS are no longer an acronym)
56. ITESM stands for Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Monterrey - see Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
57. JANET stands for Joint Academic NETwork (alleged originally to be a name significant to one of the original developers)
58. JIU stands for Jones International University
59. JPPSG stands for Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group (UK HE)
60. KNOU stands for Korea National Open University
61. LSDA stands for Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK)
62. LTSC stands for Learning Technology Standards Committee (of IEEE)
63. MOO stands for Multi-User Dungeons, Object Oriented
64. NHSU - and sometimes NHSu - stands for National Health Service University (UK)
65. NUCCAT stands for Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
66. NUS stands for National University of Singapore
67. OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
68. OKI stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
69. OLA stands for Open Learning Agency (British Columbia) – to be closed. It could also stand for Open Learning Australia.
70. OU is a common abbreviation for UK Open University - we try to use UKOU instead
71. OUHK stands for Open University of Hong Kong
72. OUN stands for Open Universiteit Nederland
73. OUSL stands for the Open University of Sri Lanka
74. PROMETEUS stands for PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society
75. QAA stands for Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education in the UK)
76. QCA stands for Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
77. RIO stands for Reusable Information Object (as at Cisco)
78. RLO stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
79. RMIT stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT)
80. SCONUL stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
81. SCORM stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
82. SCQF stands for Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
83. SFC stands for the Scottish Funding Council
84. SFEFC stood for the former Scottish Further Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council
85. SHEFC stands for the former Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council
86. STOU stands for Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (Thailand)
87. SURF stands for the Dutch educational network
88. SURFnet stands for SURF network
89. SVC stands for Swiss Virtual Campus
90. TKK stands for Helsinki University of Technology (Teknillinen korkeakoulu)
91. TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
92. TQEF stands for Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund
93. TRU stands for Thompson Rivers University (Canada)
94. U21 stands for Universitas 21
95. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions System
96. UCISA stands for the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UK)
97. Ufi stands for University for Industry (learndirect)
98. UHI stands for University of the Highlands and Islands (Scotland)
99. UKeU is the UK e-University, more properly called UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited
100. UKEU stands for UKeU
101. UKOLN stands for UK Office for Library and Information Networking
102. UKOU stands for UK Open University
103. UNED stands for Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
104. UniSA stands for University of South Australia
105. UOC stands for Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the Open University of Catalonia
106. UOP stands for University of Phoenix
107. UT stands for University of Twente (Netherlands)
108. UVF stands for Université Virtuelle Francophone
109. UVT stands for Université Virtuelle de Tunis
110. VHB stands for Bavarian Virtual University (Germany)
111. WCET stands for Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
112. WGU stands for Western Governors University
113. WTO stands for World Trade Organisation
114. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language

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