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# [[DCSF]] is the ''Department for Children, Schools and Families'' of the [[UK]] | # [[DCSF]] is the ''Department for Children, Schools and Families'' of the [[UK]] | ||
# [[DDU]] stands for the Dutch [[Digital University]] (we do not use the two-letter abbreviation [[DU]] commonly used in [[Netherlands]] | # [[DDU]] stands for the Dutch [[Digital University]] (we do not use the two-letter abbreviation [[DU]] commonly used in [[Netherlands]] | ||
# [[DELNI]] is the ''Department for Employment and Learning, [[Northern Ireland]]'' | |||
# [[DEST]] is a department now merged into [[DEEWR]] | # [[DEST]] is a department now merged into [[DEEWR]] | ||
# [[DEEWR]] is the ''Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations'' in [[Australia]] | # [[DEEWR]] is the ''Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations'' in [[Australia]] |
Revision as of 15:45, 7 February 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.
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Abbreviations other than country codes
The following list has been extracted from the list developed for The e-University Compendium.
- ARIADNE stands for Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe
- ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- ATN stands for Australian Technology Network (of universities)
- BBE stands for Business of Borderless Education (report)
- BCOU stands for British Columbia Open University (now absorbed into Thompson Rivers University)
- BECTa was the former name for Becta
- Becta stands for British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (UK) but the long form is rarely used now
- BFSU stands for Beijing Foreign Studies University
- CANARIE stands for Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education
- CETIS stands for Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards but the long form is rarely used now
- CHEA stands for Council for Higher Education Accreditation (US) - agency
- CHEMS stands for Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service - now ceased
- CNED stands for Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance. In French the abbreviation is Cned.
- CNFD stands for Campus Numérique Francophone de Dakar
- COL stands for Commonwealth of Learning
- CVU stands for Canadian Virtual University. It was also used in the past for Clyde Virtual University.
- DCSF is the Department for Children, Schools and Families of the UK
- DDU stands for the Dutch Digital University (we do not use the two-letter abbreviation DU commonly used in Netherlands
- DELNI is the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland
- DEST is a department now merged into DEEWR
- DEEWR is the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia
- DETYA stood for Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (Australia), later called DEST
- DfEE stands for the former Department for Education and Employment of the UK, a very old name for DfES
- DfES stands for the former Department for Education and Skills of the UK, now split into DCSF and DIUS
- DFID stands for Department for International Development of the UK
- DIUS is the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of the UK
- DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk (no longer Digital Video Disk)
- ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System, sometimes called the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
- EFQM stands for European Foundation for Quality Management
- ELWA stands for Education and Learning Wales (formerly HEFCW)
- EML stands for Educational Markup Language
- ESRC stands for Economic and Social Research Council
- EUNITE stands for European University Network for Information Technology in Education
- e-U stands for the UK e-University (the one that became UKeU)
- EU stands for European Union
- FE stands for Further Education (post-school, non-degree courses)
- FVU stands for Finnish Virtual University
- GU8 stands for Global U8 Consortium
- GUA stands for Global University Alliance, but this phrase has multiple meanings
- GVU stands for Global Virtual University
- HE stands for Higher Education (universities and similar institutions)
- HECS stands for Higher Education Contributions System
- HEFCE stands for Higher Education Funding Council for England
- HEI stands for Higher Education Institution
- HERO stands for Higher Education and Research Opportunities
- HKU stands for Hong Kong University
- HUT stands for Helsinki University of Technology
- ICDL stands for International Centre for Distance Learning (at OU)
- IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
- IMS stands for Instructional Management System (the original meaning)
- IMS stands for Originally stood for the Instructional Management System Project (the initials IMS are no longer an acronym)
- ITESM stands for Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Monterrey (Mexico)
- JANET stands for Joint Academic NETwork (alleged originally to be a name significant to one of the original developers)
- JIU stands for Jones International University
- JPPSG stands for Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group (UK HE)
- KNOU stands for Korea National Open University
- LSDA stands for Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK)
- LTSC stands for Learning Technology Standards Committee (of IEEE)
- MOO stands for Multi-User Dungeons, Object Oriented
- NHSU stands for National Health Service University
- NUCCAT stands for Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
- NUS stands for National University of Singapore
- OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
- OKI stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
- OLA stands for Open Learning Australia
- OLA stands for Open Learning Agency (British Columbia) – to be closed
- OU is a common abbreviation for UK Open University - we try to use UKOU instead
- OUHK stands for Open University of Hong Kong
- OUN stands for Open Universiteit Nederland
- PROMETEUS stands for PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society
- QAA stands for Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education in the UK)
- QCA stands for Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
- RIO stands for Reusable Information 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)
- SCONUL stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
- SCORM stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
- SCQF stands for Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
- SFC stands for the Scottish Funding Council
- SFEFC stood for the former Scottish Further Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council
- SHEFC stands for the former Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council
- SURF stands for the Dutch educational network
- SURFnet stands for SURF network
- TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
- TQEF stands for Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund
- TRU stands for Thompson Rivers University
- U21 stands for Universitas 21
- UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions System
- UCISA stands for Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association
- Ufi stands for University for Industry (learndirect)
- UHI stands for University of the Highlands and Islands (project)
- UKeU is the UK e-University, more properly called UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited
- UKEU stands for UKeU
- UKOLN stands for UK Office for Library and Information Networking
- UKOU stands for UK Open University
- UNED stands for Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
- UniSA stands for University of South Australia
- UOC stands for Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the Open University of Catalonia
- UOP stands for University of Phoenix
- UT stands for University of Twente
- UVF stands for Université Virtuelle Francophone
- UVT stands for Université Virtuelle de Tunis
- VHB stands for Bavarian Virtual University
- WCET stands for Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
- WGU stands for Western Governors University
- WTO stands for World Trade Organisation
- XML stands for Extensible Markup Language
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