Abbreviations

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
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. HE stands for Higher Education (universities and similar institutions)
36. HECS stands for Higher Education Contributions System
37. HEFCE stands for Higher Education Funding Council for England
38. HEI stands for Higher Education Institution
39. HERO stands for Higher Education and Research Opportunities
40. HKU stands for Hong Kong University
41. HUT stands for Helsinki University of Technology
42. ICDL stands for International Centre for Distance Learning (at OU)
43. IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
44. IMS stands for Instructional Management System (the original meaning)
45. IMS stands for Originally stood for the Instructional Management System Project (the initials IMS are no longer an acronym)
46. ITESM stands for Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Monterrey (Mexico)
47. JANET stands for Joint Academic NETwork (alleged originally to be a name significant to one of the original developers)
48. JIU stands for Jones International University
49. JPPSG stands for Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group (UK HE)
50. KNOU stands for Korea National Open University
51. LSDA stands for Learning and Skills Development Agency (UK)
52. LTSC stands for Learning Technology Standards Committee (of IEEE)
53. MOO stands for Multi-User Dungeons, Object Oriented
54. NHSU stands for National Health Service University
55. NUCCAT stands for Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer
56. NUS stands for National University of Singapore
57. OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
58. OKI stands for Open Knowledge Initiative
59. OLA stands for Open Learning Australia
60. OLA stands for Open Learning Agency (British Columbia) – to be closed
61. OU stands for Open University, usually Open University of the UK
62. OUHK stands for Open University of Hong Kong
63. OUN stands for Open Universiteit Nederland
64. PROMETEUS stands for PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society
65. QAA stands for Quality Assurance Agency (for Higher Education in the UK)
66. QCA stands for Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
67. RIO stands for Reusable Information Object (as at Cisco)
68. RLO stands for Reusable Learning Object (as at Cisco)
69. RMIT stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (former name for RMIT)
70. SCONUL stands for Society of College, National and University Libraries
71. SCORM stands for Sharable Course (or Courseware or Content) Object Reference Model
72. SCQF stands for Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
73. SHEFC stands for (former) Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
74. SURF stands for the Dutch educational network
75. SURFnet stands for SURF network
76. TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
77. TQEF stands for Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund
78. TRU stands for Thompson Rivers University
79. U21 stands for Universitas 21
80. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions System
81. UCISA stands for Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association
82. Ufi stands for University for Industry (learndirect)
83. UHI stands for University of the Highlands and Islands (project)
84. UKOLN stands for UK Office for Library and Information Networking
85. UNED stands for Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
86. UniSA stands for University of South Australia
87. UOC stands for Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the Open University of Catalonia
88. UOP stands for University of Phoenix
89. UT stands for University of Twente
90. VHB stands for Bavarian Virtual University
91. WCET stands for Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
92. WGU stands for Western Governors University
93. WTO stands for World Trade Organisation
94. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language

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