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.

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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. DELNI is the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland
20. DEST is a department now merged into DEEWR
21. DEEWR is the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia
22. DETYA stood for Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (Australia), later called DEST
23. DfEE stands for the former Department for Education and Employment of the UK, a very old name for DfES
24. DfES stands for the former Department for Education and Skills of the UK, now split into DCSF and DIUS
25. DFID stands for Department for International Development of the UK
26. DIUS is the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of the UK
27. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk (no longer Digital Video Disk)
28. ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System, sometimes called the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
29. EFQM stands for European Foundation for Quality Management
30. ELWA stood for Education and Learning Wales but is no longer used - see HEFCW
31. EML stands for Educational Markup Language
32. ESRC stands for Economic and Social Research Council
33. EUNITE stands for European University Network for Information Technology in Education
34. e-U stands for the UK e-University (the one that became UKeU)
35. EU stands for European Union
36. FE stands for Further Education (post-school, non-degree courses)
37. FVU stands for Finnish Virtual University
38. GU8 stands for Global U8 Consortium
39. GUA stands for Global University Alliance, but this phrase has multiple meanings
40. GVU stands for Global Virtual University
41. HE stands for Higher Education (universities and similar institutions)
42. HECS stands for Higher Education Contributions System
43. HEFCE stands for Higher Education Funding Council for England
44. HEFCW stands for Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
45. HEI stands for Higher Education Institution
46. HERO stands for Higher Education and Research Opportunities
47. HKU stands for Hong Kong University
48. HUT stands for Helsinki University of Technology
49. ICDL stands for International Centre for Distance Learning (at OU)
50. IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
51. IMS stands for Instructional Management System (the original meaning)
52. IMS stands for Originally stood for the Instructional Management System Project (the initials IMS are no longer an acronym)
53. ITESM stands for Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Monterrey (Mexico)
54. JANET stands for Joint Academic NETwork (alleged originally to be a name significant to one of the original developers)
55. JIU stands for Jones International University
56. JPPSG stands for Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group (UK HE)
57. KNOU stands for Korea National Open University
58. LSDA stands for Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK)
59. LTSC stands for Learning Technology Standards Committee (of IEEE)
60. MOO stands for Multi-User Dungeons, Object Oriented
61. NHSU stands for National Health Service University
62. NUCCAT stands for Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
63. NUS stands for National University of Singapore
64. OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
65. OKI stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
66. OLA stands for Open Learning Australia
67. OLA stands for Open Learning Agency (British Columbia) – to be closed
68. OU is a common abbreviation for UK Open University - we try to use UKOU instead
69. OUHK stands for Open University of Hong Kong
70. OUN stands for Open Universiteit Nederland
71. PROMETEUS stands for PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society
72. QAA stands for Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education in the UK)
73. QCA stands for Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
74. RIO stands for Reusable Information Object (as at Cisco)
75. RLO stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
76. RMIT stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT)
77. SCONUL stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
78. SCORM stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
79. SCQF stands for Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
80. SFC stands for the Scottish Funding Council
81. SFEFC stood for the former Scottish Further Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council
82. SHEFC stands for the former Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council
83. SURF stands for the Dutch educational network
84. SURFnet stands for SURF network
85. TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
86. TQEF stands for Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund
87. TRU stands for Thompson Rivers University
88. U21 stands for Universitas 21
89. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions System
90. UCISA stands for Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association
91. Ufi stands for University for Industry (learndirect)
92. UHI stands for University of the Highlands and Islands (project)
93. UKeU is the UK e-University, more properly called UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited
94. UKEU stands for UKeU
95. UKOLN stands for UK Office for Library and Information Networking
96. UKOU stands for UK Open University
97. UNED stands for Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
98. UniSA stands for University of South Australia
99. UOC stands for Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the Open University of Catalonia
100. UOP stands for University of Phoenix
101. UT stands for University of Twente
102. UVF stands for Université Virtuelle Francophone
103. UVT stands for Université Virtuelle de Tunis
104. VHB stands for Bavarian Virtual University
105. WCET stands for Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
106. WGU stands for Western Governors University
107. WTO stands for World Trade Organisation
108. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language

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