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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.

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. AABSC stands for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
  2. AAOU stands for the Asian Association of Open Universities
  3. AAU stands for Aalborg University (Denmark)
  4. AIOU stands for the Allama Iqbal Open University (Pakistan)
  5. AIU stands for American InterContinental University
  6. ALFA stands for América Latina - Formación Académica, a programme of cooperation between higher education institutions of the European Union and Latin America
  7. AMBA stands for The Association of MBAs
  8. AMU stands for Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Czech Republic)
  9. ANCED stands for the Asociación Nacional de Centros de e-Learning y Distancia (Spain)
  10. AOU stands for the Arab Open University
  11. AQF stands for Australian Qualifications Framework
  12. AU stands for Aarhus University (Denmark)
  13. AUQA stands for the Australian Universities Quality Agency
  14. AUT stands for Auckland University of Technology
  15. AUTH stands for Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
  16. ARIADNE stands for Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe
  17. ARIEL stands for Analysing and Reporting the Implementation of Electronic Learning in Europe
  18. ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations
  19. ATN stands for Australian Technology Network (of universities)
  20. AUCC stands for the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
  21. AULP stands for Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa (Association of Universities in the Language of Portuguese)
  22. AUT stands for Auckland University of Technology - no longer for Association of University Teachers which does not now exist
  23. AVU stands for African Virtual University
  24. BAWEST stands for Business Academy West (Denmark)
  25. BBE stands for Business of Borderless Education (report)
  26. BCOU stands for British Columbia Open University (now absorbed into Thompson Rivers University)
  27. BECTa was the former name for Becta
  28. Becta stands for British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (UK) but the long form is rarely used now
  29. BELNET stands for the Belgian Research and Education Network
  30. BFSU stands for Beijing Foreign Studies University
  31. BNU stands for Beijing Normal University
  32. BOU stands for the Bangladesh Open University
  33. BTVU stands for Beijing Radio & TV University‎ (China)
  34. BVU stands for Best Virtual Universities Organisation
  35. CANARIE stands for Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education, the NREN in Canada
  36. CARET stands for the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge
  37. CBS stands for Copenhagen Business School
  38. CCi stands for Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (US)
  39. CCRTVU stands for the China Central Radio & TV University
  40. CERNET stands for the China Education and Research Network
  41. CETIS stands for Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards but the long form is rarely used now (UK)
  42. CEVU stands for Collaborative European Virtual University
  43. CHEA stands for Council for Higher Education Accreditation (US) - agency
  44. CHEI stands for Council for Higher Education, Israel
  45. CHEMS stands for Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service - now ceased
  46. CMEC stands for the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
  47. CNED stands for Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance. In French the abbreviation is Cned.
  48. CNAVES was the Portuguese agency for quality in higher education. It closed in 2007 and is now replaced by another body.
  49. CNFD stands for Campus Numérique Francophone de Dakar
  50. COL stands for Commonwealth of Learning
  51. CPLP stands for Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (Community of Portuguese Language Countries),
  52. CRUP stands for Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas (Portugal)
  53. CTU stands for Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)
  54. CVU stands for Canadian Virtual University. It was also used in the past for Clyde Virtual University.
  55. DCSF is the Department for Children, Schools and Families of the UK
  56. DCU stands for Dublin City University, Ireland - the host of OSCAIL
  57. DDU stands for the Dutch Digital University (we do not use the two-letter abbreviation DU commonly used in Netherlands
  58. DELNI is the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland
  59. DELOS stands for Developing a European e-learning Observation System
  60. DEST is a department now merged into DEEWR
  61. DEEWR is the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia
  62. DETYA stood for Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (Australia), later called DEST
  63. DfEE stands for the former Department for Education and Employment of the UK, a very old name for DfES
  64. DfES stands for the former Department for Education and Skills of the UK, now split into DCSF and DIUS
  65. DFID stands for Department for International Development of the UK
  66. DGAU stands for Dennis Gabor Applied University (Hungary)
  67. DISC stands for Distance and Educational Study Center (Germany)
  68. DIUS is the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of the UK
  69. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk (no longer Digital Video Disk)
  70. DTU stands for Technical University of Denmark
  71. DVU stands for Danish Virtual University
  72. EADTU stands for the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
  73. E.A.S.Y. stands for Agency for Easy Access to Virtual Campus
  74. eChina stands for the Sino-UK eLearning Programme
  75. ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System, sometimes called the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
  76. EdiNet stands for E-learning in Distributed Data Network Laboratory
  77. eduGI stands for Reuse and Sharing of e-Learning Courses in GI Science Education
  78. EeU stands for Estonian e-University
  79. EFQM stands for European Foundation for Quality Management
  80. eLene-TT stands for e-Learning Network for Teacher Training
  81. e-LERU stands for League of European Research Universities virtual campus
  82. ELUE stands for Improving quality of e-learning in universities
  83. ELWA stood for Education and Learning Wales but is no longer used - see HEFCW
  84. ELDDA stands for e-Learning Digital Dashboard
  85. E-move stands for An Operational Conception of Virtual Mobility
  86. EML stands for Educational Markup Language
  87. eMM and EMM stand for the e-Learning Maturity Model for benchmarking e-learning
  88. ENQA stands for the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
  89. EQUEL stands for E-quality in e-learning research Laboratoire
  90. EQUIS stands for European Quality Improvement System
  91. EQO stands for European Quality Observatory
  92. eRNIST stands for European Research Network for ICT in Schools of Tomorrow
  93. ESP-T stands for English for Specific Purposes: Therapeutic Professions
  94. ESRC stands for Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
  95. ESEN stands for European Small and medium entreprise E-learning Network
  96. ETT.Campus stands for European Teachers and Trainers campus
  97. e-Ttnet stands for Training of trainers network for e-learning
  98. EU stands for European Union
  99. e-U stands for the UK e-University (the one that became UKeU)
  100. EUA stands for European University Association
  101. EUNITE stands for European University Network for Information Technology in Education
  102. e-URBs stands for European Master in Comparative Urban Studies
  103. EUROMOVE stands for European Mobility through Virtual Education
  104. EVENE stands for Erasmus Virtual Economics & Management Studies Exchange
  105. EVICAB stands for European Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering
  106. FADE stands for the Finnish Association for Distance Education
  107. FE stands for Further Education (post-school, non-degree courses)
  108. Fe-ConE stands for Framework for e-learning Contents Evaluation
  109. FELI stands for Failed E-Learning Initiative
  110. FILTER stands for Economic filtering of knowledge
  111. FFCJ stands for Florida Community College‎ at Jacksonville, US
  112. FVU stands for Finnish Virtual University
  113. GELI stands for Giant E-Learning Initiative
  114. GTCS stands for Georgia Technical College System (US)
  115. GU8 stands for Global U8 Consortium
  116. GUA stands for Global University Alliance, but this phrase has multiple meanings
  117. GVU stands for Global Virtual University
  118. GVTC stands for Georgia Virtual Technical College (US)
  119. HCMCOU stands for Ho Chi Minh City Open University (Vietnam)
  120. HE stands for Higher Education (universities and similar institutions)
  121. HECS stands for the Higher Education Contribution Scheme, now replaced by the Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP)
  122. HEFCE stands for Higher Education Funding Council for England (UK)
  123. HEFCW stands for Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (UK)
  124. HEI stands for Higher Education Institution
  125. HELIOS stands for Horizontal E-Learning Integrated Observation System
  126. HERO stands for Higher Education and Research Opportunities (UK)
  127. HESA stands for Higher Education South Africa, an association of Rectors
  128. HETAC stands for the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (Ireland)
  129. HOU stands for the Hellenic Open University (Greece)
  130. HKU stands for University of Hong Kong
  131. HNRTVU stands for Henan Radio & TV University‎ (China)
  132. HUT used to be used for Helsinki University of Technology but we prefer TKK (Teknillinen KorkeaKoulu)
  133. IAU stands for International Association of Universities
  134. ICDE stands for the International Council for Open and Distance Education
  135. ICDL stands for the former International Centre for Distance Learning (at UKOU) - the database is still available to subscribers
  136. ICETEL stands for Improving Continuing Education and Training through e-learning
  137. IEC stands for the Idaho Electronic Campus
  138. IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
  139. IHA stands for Engineering College of Aarhus (Denmark)
  140. IHK stands for Copenhagen University College of Engineering (Denmark)
  141. IMRTVU stands for Inner Mongolia Radio & TV University
  142. IMS used to stand for Instructional Management System (the initials IMS are no longer an acronym)
  143. ITESM stands for Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Monterrey - see Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
  144. ITU stands for IT-University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
  145. It-vest stands for IT University West (Denmark)
  146. IUA stands for the Irish Universities Association, Ireland (Republic)
  147. IVC stands for the Illinois Virtual Campus (US)
  148. JANET stands for Joint Academic NETwork (alleged originally to be a name significant to one of the original developers) (UK)
  149. JIU stands for Jones International University
  150. JPPSG stands for Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group (UK Higher Education)
  151. JSRTVU stands for Jiangsu Radio & TV University (China)
  152. KNOU stands for Korea National Open University
  153. KU stands for University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
  154. KYVC and KYVU stand for Kentucky Virtual University
  155. LIFE stands for Learning Interoperability Framework for Europe
  156. LIVIUS stands for Learning in a Virtual Integrated University
  157. LSDA stands for the former Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK) - now split into LSN and QIA
  158. LTSC stands for Learning Technology Standards Committee (of IEEE)
  159. MASSIVE stands for Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate Virtual Component in Higher Education
  160. MASTER stand for Mobility, Assessment, Selection, Technology and E-Learning Research
  161. MELI stands for Major E-Learning Initiative
  162. MENU stands for Model for a European Networked University for e-Learning
  163. MESI stands for Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (Russia)
  164. MEXT stands for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
  165. MOO stands for Multi-User Dungeons, Object Oriented
  166. MPBOU stands for Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University (India)
  167. MVHS stands for Michigan Virtual High School (US) - see Michigan Virtual University
  168. MVS stands for Michigan Virtual School (US) - see Michigan Virtual University
  169. MVU stands for Michigan Virtual University (US)
  170. NADE stands for the Norwegian Association for Distance Education
  171. NDEC stands for the National Distance Education Centre of Ireland - Oscail in Irish
  172. NELI stands for Notable E-Learning Initiative
  173. NIME stands for the National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan
  174. NJVU stands for New Jersey Virtual University (US)
  175. NKI stands for NKI Distance Education, the main distance learning provider in Norway
  176. NKS stands for NKS Nettstudier, sometimes called NKS Distance Education, Norway (to be carefully distinguished from NKI)
  177. NOKUT stands for Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education
  178. NOU stands for Norway Opening Universities, the innovation programme in e-learning for HE in Norway
  179. NPTEL stands for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (India)
  180. NQAI stands for the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland
  181. NREN stands for National Research and Education Network
  182. 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
  183. NSOU stands for Netaji Subhas Open University (India)
  184. NSU stands for Nova Southeastern University (US)
  185. NUCCAT stands for Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
  186. NUS stands for National University of Singapore
  187. NVU stands for Norwegian Networked University, an association in Norway
  188. NZQA stands for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority
  189. OBHE stands for the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education
  190. OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  191. OISE stands for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - part of the University of Toronto, Canada
  192. OKI stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
  193. OLA stands for Open Learning Agency (British Columbia) – to be closed. It could also stand for Open Learning Australia.
  194. OLCOS stands for Open e-Learning Content Observatory Services
  195. OLF stands for Open Learning Foundation in the United Kingdom
  196. OPNZ stands for the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
  197. OU is a common abbreviation for UK Open University - we try to use UKOU instead
  198. OUHK stands for Open University of Hong Kong
  199. OUI stands for Open University of Israel
  200. OUJ stands for the Open University of Japan, formerly the University of the Air
  201. UOA stands for Open Universities Australia -- formerly Open Learning Australia
  202. ORMEE stands for Observatory on Rights Management for e-Learning in Europe
  203. OSU stands for University of Ostrava (Czech Republic)
  204. OUN stands for Open Universiteit Nederland
  205. OUS stands for the Open University of Sudan
  206. OUSL stands for the Open University of Sri Lanka
  207. PANdora stands for Pan Asia Networking distance and open resource access, a study project
  208. PLATO stands for ICT Platform for Online Learning and Experiences Accreditation in the Mobility Programme
  209. PnM or PNM stand for Pick&Mix
  210. PNU stands for Payame Noor University (Iran)
  211. PUP OUS stands for Polytechnic University of the Philippines Open University System
  212. PROMETEUS stands for PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society
  213. PRTVU stands for one of the provincial-level Radio & TV universities in China
  214. PSU stands for Pennsylvania State University (US) - see Penn State World Campus
  215. PUW stands for Polski Uniwersytet Wirtualny, the Polish Virtual University
  216. QAA stands for Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education in the UK)
  217. QCA stands for Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (UK)
  218. QOU stands for Al-Quds Open University (Palestine)
  219. QUADEM stands for Quality Assessment of Digital Educational Materials
  220. QUAL-E-LEARNING stands for La qualité de l'eLearning
  221. REVE stands for REal Virtual Erasmus
  222. RIO stands for Reusable Information Object (as at Cisco)
  223. RLO stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
  224. RMIT stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT) (Australia)
  225. RRU stands for Royal Roads University (Canada)
  226. RUC stands for Roskilde University (Denmark)
  227. SCONUL stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
  228. SCORM stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
  229. SCQF stands for Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (UK)
  230. SCRTVU stands for Sichuan Radio & TV University (China) -- see also SRTVU
  231. SDU stands for University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
  232. SEEL stands for Supporting Excellence in eLearning
  233. SEEQUEL stands for Sustainable Environment for the Evaluation of Quality in eLearning
  234. SFC stands for the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
  235. SFEFC stood for the former Scottish Further Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
  236. SFU stands for Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, Canada
  237. SHEFC stands for the former Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
  238. SHTVU stands for Shanghai TV University -- see also STVU
  239. SHU stands for Sheffield Hallam University (UK)
  240. SRTVU stands for Sichuan Radio & TV University (China) -- see also SCRTVU
  241. SREB stands for Southern Regional Electronic Board (Electronic Campus)
  242. STOU stands for Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (Thailand)
  243. STVU stands for Shanghai TV University -- see also SHTVU
  244. SURF stands for the Dutch educational network (Netherlands)
  245. SURFnet stands for SURF network (Netherlands)
  246. VŠERS stands for College of European and Regional Studies (Czech Republic)
  247. VSZDRAV stands for College of Nursing and Midwifery (Czech Republic)
  248. SVC stands for Swiss Virtual Campus
  249. SVU stands for Syrian Virtual University
  250. SXRTVU stands for Shaanxi Radio and Television University (China)
  251. SYTVU stands for Shenyang Radio & TV University (China)
  252. TechBC stand for the former Technical University of British Columbia, Canada
  253. TÉLUQ (and various variants) stands for the Télé-université du Québec, now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
  254. TGOU stands for the The Global Open University of Zambia
  255. TJRTVU stands for Tianjin Radio & TV University, China
  256. TKK stands for Helsinki University of Technology (Teknillinen korkeakoulu)
  257. TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (UK)
  258. TNOU stands for Tamil Nadu Open University (India)
  259. TQEF stands for Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (UK)
  260. TRU stands for Thompson Rivers University (Canada)
  261. U21 stands for Universitas 21
  262. UAb stands for Universidade Aberta (Portugal), the Portuguese Open University
  263. UAE stands for United Arab Emirates (the country)
  264. UB stands for University of Baltimore (US)
  265. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions System (UK)
  266. UCC stands for University College Copenhagen (Denmark)
  267. UCF stands for University of Central Florida (US)
  268. UCISA stands for the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UK)
  269. UCSJ stands for University College Sealand (Denmark)
  270. ULC stands for University College Lillebaelt (Denmark)
  271. UCJ stands for Jutland University College (Denmark)
  272. UCN stands for University College of Northern Denmark (Denmark)
  273. UCSouth stands for University College South (Denmark)
  274. UEF stands for the University of Eastern Finland
  275. Ufi (or sometimes UFI) stands for University for Industry, who deliver learndirect (UK)
  276. UHI stands for University of the Highlands and Islands (Scotland) (UK)
  277. UKeU is the UK e-University, more properly called UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited
  278. UKEU stands for UKeU
  279. UKOLN stands for UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UK)
  280. UKOU stands for UK Open University
  281. UNE stands for University of New England (US)
  282. UMUC stands for University of Maryland University College (US)
  283. UNE stands for University of New England (US)
  284. UNED stands for Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
  285. UNINETT is the National Education and Research Network for Norway
  286. UniSA stands for University of South Australia
  287. UNESCO stands for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  288. UNISIM or UniSIM stands for SIM University (Singapore)
  289. UOC stands for Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the Open University of Catalonia
  290. UOPX stands for University of Phoenix (US)
  291. UPM stands for Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the Technical University of Madrid (Spain)
  292. UPRTOU stands for U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University (India)
  293. UQAM stands for the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada)
  294. USP stands for the University of the South Pacific (online learning)
  295. USQ stands for University of Southern Queensland
  296. UT stands for University of Twente (Netherlands) but also Universitas Terbuka (Indonesia) - do not use
  297. UTPL stands for Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador)
  298. UUK stands for Universities UK
  299. UVF stands for Université Virtuelle Francophone
  300. UVT stands for Université Virtuelle de Tunis
  301. VCSE stands for Virtual Campus for A Sustainable Europe
  302. VEBS stands for Virtual European Banking School
  303. VENUS stands for Virtual and E-mobility for Networking Universities in Society
  304. VHB stands for Bavarian Virtual University (Germany)
  305. ViCaDiS stands for Virtual Campus for Digital Students
  306. VICTORIOUS stands for VIrtual Curricula ThrOugh Reliable InterOperating University Systems
  307. VIPA stands for VIrtual campus for virtual space design Provided for european Architects
  308. VMOUstands for Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University (India)
  309. VU stands for Pakistan Virtual University or Virtual University of Pakistan
  310. VUSME stands for Virtual University for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
  311. WCET stands for Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
  312. WGU stands for Western Governors University
  313. WHOLE stands for Web-based health Organisations Learning Environment
  314. WTO stands for World Trade Organisation
  315. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language
  316. YCMOU stands for Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (India)
  317. YRTVU stands for Yunnan Radio & TV University (China)
  318. ZFH stands for Zentralstelle für Fernstudien an Fachhochschulen (Germany)
  319. ZOU stands for Zimbabwe Open University

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