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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 and then further developed.

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

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