Abbreviations

This is (to be) a full list of abbreviations for organisations and other activities of relevance to Re.ViCa.

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. BECTa stands for Former name for Becta
6. Becta stands for British Educational Communications and Technology Agency
7. CANARIE stands for Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education
8. CETIS stands for Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards
9. CHEA stands for Council for Higher Education Accreditation (US)
10. CHEMS stands for Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service
11. COL stands for Commonwealth of Learning
12. CVU stands for Canadian Virtual University
13. DETYA stands for Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (Australia)
14. DfEE stands for Department for Education and Employment (old name for DfES)
15. DfES stands for Department for Education and Skills (new name)
16. DFID stands for Department for International Development
17. DU stands for Digital University (normally the Dutch one)
18. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk (no longer Digital Video Disk)
19. ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System
20. EFQM stands for European Foundation for Quality Management
21. ELWA stands for Education and Learning Wales (formerly HEFCW)
22. EML stands for Educational Markup Language
23. ESRC stands for Economic and Social Research Council
24. EUNITE stands for European University Network for Information Technology in Education
25. e-U stands for e-University (the one that became UKeU)
26. EU stands for European Union
27. FE stands for Further Education (post-school, non-degree courses)
28. FVU stands for Finnish Virtual University
29. HE stands for Higher Education (universities and similar institutions)
30. HECS stands for Higher Education Contributions System
31. HEFCE stands for Higher Education Funding Council for England
32. HEI stands for Higher Education Institution
33. HERO stands for Higher Education and Research Opportunities
34. HKU stands for Hong Kong University
35. HUT stands for Helsinki University of Technology
36. ICDL stands for International Centre for Distance Learning (at OU)
37. IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
38. IMS stands for Instructional Management System (the original meaning)
39. IMS stands for Originally stood for the Instructional Management System Project (the initials IMS are no longer an acronym)
40. ITESM stands for Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Monterrey (Mexico)
41. JANET stands for Joint Academic NETwork (alleged originally to be a name significant to one of the original developers)
42. JIU stands for Jones International University
43. JPPSG stands for Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group (UK HE)
44. KNOU stands for Korea National Open University
45. LSDA stands for Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK)
46. LTSC stands for Learning Technology Standards Committee (of IEEE)
47. MOO stands for Multi-User Dungeons, Object Oriented
48. NHSU stands for National Health Service University
49. NUCCAT stands for Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
50. NUS stands for National University of Singapore
51. OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
52. OKI stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
53. OLA stands for Open Learning Australia
54. OLA stands for Open Learning Agency (British Columbia) – to be closed
55. OU stands for Open University, usually Open University of the UK
56. OUHK stands for Open University of Hong Kong
57. OUNL stands for Open Universiteit (NetherLands)
58. PROMETEUS stands for PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society
59. QAA stands for Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education in the UK)
60. QCA stands for Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
61. RIO stands for Reusable Information Object (as at Cisco)
62. RLO stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
63. RMIT stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT)
64. SCONUL stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
65. SCORM stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
66. SCQF stands for Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
67. SHEFC stands for (former) Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
68. SURF stands for the Dutch educational network
69. SURFnet stands for SURF network
70. TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
71. TQEF stands for Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund
72. U21 stands for Universitas 21
73. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions System
74. UCISA stands for Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association
75. Ufi stands for University for Industry (learndirect)
76. UHI stands for University of the Highlands and Islands (project)
77. UKOLN stands for UK Office for Library and Information Networking
78. UNED stands for Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
79. UniSA stands for University of South Australia
80. UOC stands for Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the Open University of Catalonia
81. UOP stands for University of Phoenix
82. UT stands for University of Twente
83. WCET stands for Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
84. WGU stands for Western Governors University
85. WTO stands for World Trade Organisation
86. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language

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