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

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