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

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