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

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