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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.

  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 (UK) but the long form is rarely used now
  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 but the long form is rarely used now
  11. CHEA stands for Council for Higher Education Accreditation (US) - agency
  12. CHEMS stands for Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service - now ceased
  13. CNED stands for Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance. In French the abbreviation is Cned.
  14. CNFD stands for Campus Numérique Francophone de Dakar
  15. COL stands for Commonwealth of Learning
  16. CVU stands for Canadian Virtual University. It was also used in the past for Clyde Virtual University.
  17. DCSF is the Department for Children, Schools and Families of the UK
  18. DDU stands for the Dutch Digital University (we do not use the two-letter abbreviation DU commonly used in Netherlands)
  19. DETYA stands for Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (Australia)
  20. DfEE stands for the former Department for Education and Employment of the UK, a very old name for DfES
  21. DfES stands for the former Department for Education and Skills of the UK, now split into DCSF and DIUS
  22. DFID stands for Department for International Development of the UK
  23. DIUS is the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of the UK
  24. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk (no longer Digital Video Disk)
  25. ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System
  26. EFQM stands for European Foundation for Quality Management
  27. ELWA stands for Education and Learning Wales (formerly HEFCW)
  28. EML stands for Educational Markup Language
  29. ESRC stands for Economic and Social Research Council
  30. EUNITE stands for European University Network for Information Technology in Education
  31. e-U stands for the UK e-University (the one that became UKeU)
  32. EU stands for European Union
  33. FE stands for Further Education (post-school, non-degree courses)
  34. FVU stands for Finnish Virtual University
  35. GU8 stands for Global U8 Consortium
  36. GUA stands for Global University Alliance, but this phrase has multiple meanings
  37. GVU stands for Global Virtual University
  38. HE stands for Higher Education (universities and similar institutions)
  39. HECS stands for Higher Education Contributions System
  40. HEFCE stands for Higher Education Funding Council for England
  41. HEI stands for Higher Education Institution
  42. HERO stands for Higher Education and Research Opportunities
  43. HKU stands for Hong Kong University
  44. HUT stands for Helsinki University of Technology
  45. ICDL stands for International Centre for Distance Learning (at OU)
  46. IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
  47. IMS stands for Instructional Management System (the original meaning)
  48. IMS stands for Originally stood for the Instructional Management System Project (the initials IMS are no longer an acronym)
  49. ITESM stands for Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Monterrey (Mexico)
  50. JANET stands for Joint Academic NETwork (alleged originally to be a name significant to one of the original developers)
  51. JIU stands for Jones International University
  52. JPPSG stands for Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group (UK HE)
  53. KNOU stands for Korea National Open University
  54. LSDA stands for Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK)
  55. LTSC stands for Learning Technology Standards Committee (of IEEE)
  56. MOO stands for Multi-User Dungeons, Object Oriented
  57. NHSU stands for National Health Service University
  58. NUCCAT stands for Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
  59. NUS stands for National University of Singapore
  60. OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  61. OKI stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
  62. OLA stands for Open Learning Australia
  63. OLA stands for Open Learning Agency (British Columbia) – to be closed
  64. OU is a common abbreviation for UK Open University - we try to use UKOU instead
  65. OUHK stands for Open University of Hong Kong
  66. OUN stands for Open Universiteit Nederland
  67. PROMETEUS stands for PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society
  68. QAA stands for Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education in the UK)
  69. QCA stands for Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
  70. RIO stands for Reusable Information Object (as at Cisco)
  71. RLO stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
  72. RMIT stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT)
  73. SCONUL stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
  74. SCORM stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
  75. SCQF stands for Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
  76. SHEFC stands for (former) Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
  77. SURF stands for the Dutch educational network
  78. SURFnet stands for SURF network
  79. TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
  80. TQEF stands for Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund
  81. TRU stands for Thompson Rivers University
  82. U21 stands for Universitas 21
  83. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions System
  84. UCISA stands for Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association
  85. Ufi stands for University for Industry (learndirect)
  86. UHI stands for University of the Highlands and Islands (project)
  87. UKeU is the UK e-University, more properly called UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited
  88. UKEU stands for UKeU
  89. UKOLN stands for UK Office for Library and Information Networking
  90. UKOU stands for UK Open University
  91. UNED stands for Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
  92. UniSA stands for University of South Australia
  93. UOC stands for Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the Open University of Catalonia
  94. UOP stands for University of Phoenix
  95. UT stands for University of Twente
  96. UVF stands for Université Virtuelle Francophone
  97. UVT stands for Université Virtuelle de Tunis
  98. VHB stands for Bavarian Virtual University
  99. WCET stands for Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
  100. WGU stands for Western Governors University
  101. WTO stands for World Trade Organisation
  102. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language

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