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

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