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

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