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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. AAOU stands for the Asian Association of Open Universities
  2. AIOU stands for the Allama Iqbal Open University (Pakistan)
  3. ANCED stands for the Asociación Nacional de Centros de e-Learning y Distancia (Spain)
  4. AUQA stands for the Australian Universities Quality Agency
  5. ARIADNE stands for Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe
  6. ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations
  7. ATN stands for Australian Technology Network (of universities)
  8. BBE stands for Business of Borderless Education (report)
  9. BCOU stands for British Columbia Open University (now absorbed into Thompson Rivers University)
  10. BECTa was the former name for Becta
  11. Becta stands for British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (UK) but the long form is rarely used now
  12. BFSU stands for Beijing Foreign Studies University
  13. BNU stands for Beijing Normal University
  14. BOU stands for the Bangladesh Open University
  15. CANARIE stands for Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education
  16. CARET stands for the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge
  17. CCRTVU stands for the China Central Radio & TV University
  18. CERNET stands for the China Education and Research Network
  19. CETIS stands for Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards but the long form is rarely used now (UK)
  20. CHEA stands for Council for Higher Education Accreditation (US) - agency
  21. CHEMS stands for Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service - now ceased
  22. CNED stands for Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance. In French the abbreviation is Cned.
  23. CNAVES was the Portuguese agency for quality in higher education. It closed in 2007 and is now replaced by another body.
  24. CNFD stands for Campus Numérique Francophone de Dakar
  25. COL stands for Commonwealth of Learning
  26. CRUP stands for Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas (Portugal)
  27. CVU stands for Canadian Virtual University. It was also used in the past for Clyde Virtual University.
  28. DCSF is the Department for Children, Schools and Families of the UK
  29. DDU stands for the Dutch Digital University (we do not use the two-letter abbreviation DU commonly used in Netherlands
  30. DELNI is the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland
  31. DEST is a department now merged into DEEWR
  32. DEEWR is the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia
  33. DETYA stood for Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (Australia), later called DEST
  34. DfEE stands for the former Department for Education and Employment of the UK, a very old name for DfES
  35. DfES stands for the former Department for Education and Skills of the UK, now split into DCSF and DIUS
  36. DFID stands for Department for International Development of the UK
  37. DIUS is the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of the UK
  38. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk (no longer Digital Video Disk)
  39. EADTU stands for the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
  40. eChina stands for the Sino-UK eLearning Programme
  41. ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System, sometimes called the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
  42. EFQM stands for European Foundation for Quality Management
  43. ELWA stood for Education and Learning Wales but is no longer used - see HEFCW
  44. ELDDA stands for e-Learning Digital Dashboard
  45. EML stands for Educational Markup Language
  46. eMM and EMM stand for the e-Learning Maturity Model for benchmarking e-learning
  47. ENQA stands for the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
  48. ESRC stands for Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
  49. EUNITE stands for European University Network for Information Technology in Education
  50. e-U stands for the UK e-University (the one that became UKeU)
  51. EU stands for European Union
  52. FADE stands for the Finnish Association for Distance Education
  53. FE stands for Further Education (post-school, non-degree courses)
  54. FELI stands for Failed E-Learning Initiative
  55. FVU stands for Finnish Virtual University
  56. GELI stands for Giant E-Learning Initiative
  57. GU8 stands for Global U8 Consortium
  58. GUA stands for Global University Alliance, but this phrase has multiple meanings
  59. GVU stands for Global Virtual University
  60. HE stands for Higher Education (universities and similar institutions)
  61. HECS stands for the Higher Education Contribution Scheme, now replaced by the Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP)
  62. HEFCE stands for Higher Education Funding Council for England (UK)
  63. HEFCW stands for Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (UK)
  64. HEI stands for Higher Education Institution
  65. HERO stands for Higher Education and Research Opportunities (UK)
  66. HESA stands for Higher Education South Africa, an association of Rectors
  67. HKU stands for University of Hong Kong
  68. HUT used to be used for Helsinki University of Technology but we prefer TKK (Teknillinen KorkeaKoulu)
  69. ICDE stands for the International Council for Open and Distance Education
  70. ICDL stands for the former International Centre for Distance Learning (at UKOU) - the database is still available to subscribers
  71. IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
  72. IMS used to stand for Instructional Management System (the initials IMS are no longer an acronym)
  73. ITESM stands for Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Monterrey - see Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
  74. JANET stands for Joint Academic NETwork (alleged originally to be a name significant to one of the original developers) (UK)
  75. JIU stands for Jones International University
  76. JPPSG stands for Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group (UK Higher Education)
  77. KNOU stands for Korea National Open University
  78. LSDA stands for the former Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK) - now split into LSN and QIA
  79. LTSC stands for Learning Technology Standards Committee (of IEEE)
  80. MELI stands for Major E-Learning Initiative
  81. MESI stands for Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (Russia)
  82. MOO stands for Multi-User Dungeons, Object Oriented
  83. NDEC stands for the National Distance Education Centre of Ireland - Oscail in Irish
  84. NELI stands for Notable E-Learning Initiative
  85. NHSU - and sometimes NHSu - stands for National Health Service University (UK)
  86. NUCCAT stands for Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
  87. NUS stands for National University of Singapore
  88. NZQA stands for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority
  89. OBHE stands for the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education
  90. OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  91. OKI stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
  92. OLA stands for Open Learning Agency (British Columbia) – to be closed. It could also stand for Open Learning Australia.
  93. UQAM stands for the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada)
  94. OU is a common abbreviation for UK Open University - we try to use UKOU instead
  95. OUHK stands for Open University of Hong Kong
  96. OUJ stands for the Open University of Japan, formerly the University of the Air
  97. OUN stands for Open Universiteit Nederland
  98. OUSL stands for the Open University of Sri Lanka
  99. PANdora stands for Pan Asia Networking distance and open resource access, a study project
  100. PnM or PNM stand for Pick&Mix
  101. PROMETEUS stands for PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society
  102. PRTVU stands for one of the provincial-level Radio & TV universities in China
  103. QAA stands for Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education in the UK)
  104. QCA stands for Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (UK)
  105. RIO stands for Reusable Information Object (as at Cisco)
  106. RLO stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
  107. RMIT stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT) (Australia)
  108. SCONUL stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
  109. SCORM stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
  110. SCQF stands for Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (UK)
  111. SFC stands for the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
  112. SFEFC stood for the former Scottish Further Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
  113. SHEFC stands for the former Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, now part of the Scottish Funding Council (UK)
  114. SHU stands for Sheffield Hallam University (UK)
  115. STOU stands for Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (Thailand)
  116. SURF stands for the Dutch educational network (Netherlands)
  117. SURFnet stands for SURF network (Netherlands)
  118. SVC stands for Swiss Virtual Campus
  119. TÉLUQ (and various variants) stands for the Télé-université du Québec, now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
  120. TKK stands for Helsinki University of Technology (Teknillinen korkeakoulu)
  121. TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (UK)
  122. TQEF stands for Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (UK)
  123. TRU stands for Thompson Rivers University (Canada)
  124. U21 stands for Universitas 21
  125. UAb stands for Universidade Aberta (Portugal), the Portuguese Open University
  126. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions System (UK)
  127. UCISA stands for the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UK)
  128. Ufi (or sometimes UFI) stands for University for Industry, who deliver learndirect (UK)
  129. UHI stands for University of the Highlands and Islands (Scotland) (UK)
  130. UKeU is the UK e-University, more properly called UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited
  131. UKEU stands for UKeU
  132. UKOLN stands for UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UK)
  133. UKOU stands for UK Open University
  134. UNED stands for Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
  135. UniSA stands for University of South Australia
  136. UOC stands for Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the Open University of Catalonia
  137. UOP stands for University of Phoenix
  138. USQ stands for University of Southern Queensland
  139. UT stands for University of Twente (Netherlands) but also Universitas Terbuka (Indonesia) - do not use
  140. UVF stands for Université Virtuelle Francophone
  141. UVT stands for Université Virtuelle de Tunis
  142. VHB stands for Bavarian Virtual University (Germany)
  143. WCET stands for Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
  144. WGU stands for Western Governors University
  145. WTO stands for World Trade Organisation
  146. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language
  147. ZOU stands for Zimbabwe Open University

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