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.

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

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