AAACE American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
AAOU Asian Association of Open Universities
AAU Association of African Universities
ABES Adult Basic Education Society, Pakistan
ACACIA Communities and the Information society in Africa
ACBF African Capacity Building Foundation (Harare, Zimbabwe)
ACCC Association of Canadian Community Colleges
ACDE African Council for Distance Education
ACE American Council on Education
ACESAD Colombian Association for Distance Higher Education
ACIPOL The Police Academy in Mozambique
ACODE Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-Learning
ACPAC AusAID's Centre for Pacific Development and Training (Australia)
ACSDE American Centre for the Study of Distance Education
ACU Association of Commonwealth Universities
ADB Asian Development Bank
ADEA Association for the Development of Education in Africa
ADF African Development Foundation
AECS Association of European Correspondence Schools
AEZ Agro-Ecological Zone
AFCLIST African Forum for Children's Literacy in Science and Technology
AIBD Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development
AIOU Allama Iqbal Open University
AIT Agency for Instructional Technology
AIU Association of Indian Universities
AMIC Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (Singapore) (formerly the Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre)
AMREF African Medical and Research Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya)
AMTEC Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada
ANTA Australian National Training Authority
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Community
APRM African Peer Review Mechanism (a key component of the NEPAD initiative)
ASPESA Australia and South Pacific External Studies Association
ASSAFAD Association Africaine Francophone de Formation à Distance
ASTT Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of British Columbia (Surrey, BC)
AU African Union
AU Athabasca University (Alberta, Canada)
AUAP Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific
AUCC Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
AusAID Australian Agency for International Development
AVU African Virtual University
BA Bachelor of Arts
BLA The British Learning Association
(formerly BAOL, British Association for Open Learning)
BARI Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute
BCCIC British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (Victoria)
BCCIE British Columbia Centre for International Education
BOCODOL Botswana College of Open and Distance Learning
BOU Bangladesh Open University
BRAC Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee
BRAOU Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University (Hyderabad, India)
BRRI Bangladesh Rice Research Institute
BTED Bangladesh Technical Education Board
CACC Commonwealth Agencies Consultative Committee
CADE Canadian Association for Distance Education
CAEJC Commonwealth Association for Education in Journalism and Communication (London, ON)
CAETA Commonwealth Association for the Education and Training of Adults (Harare, Zimbabwe)
CAM Commonwealth Association of Museums (Calgary, AB)
CANQATE Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education
CAPA Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa
CAPAM Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (Toronto, ON)
CARCAE Caribbean Regional Council for Adult Education
CARICOM Caribbean Community Secretariat
CARNEID Caribbean Network of Educational Innovation for Development
CAST College of Arts, Science and Technology (Jamaica)
CASTME Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and Mathematics Educators
CBA Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
CBIE Canadian Bureau for International Education
CCDESP Canada-Caribbean Distance Education Scholarship Programme
CCEAM Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management
CCEM Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers
CCI Correspondence Course Institute
CCNC Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate
CDB Caribbean Development Bank (Barbados)
CDLR Centre for Distance Learning Research (Texas)
CEA Canadian Education Association
CEC Consortium for Educational Communication
CEE Centre for Environment Education
CEE Council for Environmental Education (U.K.)
CEMBA/MPA Commonwealth Executive Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Public Administration
CEMCA Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
CEMCSA Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Southern Africa
CENSE Commonwealth Electronic Network for Schools and Education
CERTWID Center for Research Training and Information for Women in Development (Ethiopia)
CESO Canadian Executive Service Organisation
CET Council for Educational Technology for the United Kingdom
CETV China Education Television
CFTC Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation
CFTP Commonwealth Fellowships and Training Programme
CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
CHEA Council for Higher Education Accreditation
CHEC Commonwealth Human Ecology Council
CHEMS Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service
CHESS Commonwealth Higher Education Support Scheme
CHOGM Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings:
CIAJ Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice
CIDA Canadian International Development Agency
CIDE Centre for International Development and Environment (World Resources Institute)
CIDER Canadian Institute for DE Research
CIE Central Institute of Education, India
CIFFAD Consortium International Francophone de Formation a Distance
CIINED Mozambique Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology and DE Task Force
CIME International Council for Educational Media (Conseil International des Moyens d'Ensignement)
CIRCIT Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies (South Melbourne, Vic.)
CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation
CLEA Commonwealth Legal Education Association
CLLL Canadian Link to Lifelong Learning
CMEC Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (Toronto, ON)
CMS content management system
CODE Canadian Organisation for Development Through Education
CODE College of Distance Education (Papua New Guinea)
COL Commonwealth of Learning
COLISA Confederation of Open Learning Institutions of South Africa
COLME Commonwealth of Learning Media Empowerment
ComSec Commonwealth Secretariat
CONAHEC Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration
COOL Campus of Open Learning
COSIT Correspondence and Open Studies Institute (University of Laos, Nigeria)
CPSC Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education (Manila, Philippines)
CREAD The Inter-American Distance Education Consortium
CRIDAL Centre for Research in Distance and Adult Learning (OU, Hong Kong)
CRTC Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
CRTVU Central Radio and TV University (China)
CSC Commonwealth Science Council
CSFP Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
CSU Charles Sturt University
CTO Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation
CUSAC Commonwealth Universities Study Abroad Consortium
CUSC Commonwealth Universities Student Congress
CYP Commonwealth Youth Programme
DAE Department of Agricultural Extension, India
DANIDA Danish International Development Assistance
DBSA Development Bank of Southern Africa (SA)
DE Distance Education
DEANZ Distance Education Association of New Zealand
DEASA Distance Education Association of Southern Africa
DEATA Distance Education Association of Tanzania
DEC Distance Education Council (IGNOU)
DESA Distance Education Association of South Africa
DESESA Distance Education Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa (project)
DETA Distance Education and Teachers' Training in Africa
DETC Distance Education and Training Council (Washington, DC) (formerly National Home Study Council)
DfEE Department for Education and Employment (UK)
DFES Department for Education and Science (UK)
DFID Department for International Development (UK) (formerly ODA)
DNFE Department of Non-Formal Education, Ministry of Education (Botswana)
EADTU European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
EAIE European Association for International Education
EBU European Broadcasting Union
ECCE Early Childhood Care and Education
ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
EDEA Excellence in Distance Education Awards
EDEN European Distance and E-Learning Network
(formerly, European Distance Education Network)
EDI World Bank-Economic Development Institute
EDNA Education Network Australia
EEC European Economic Commission
EECOM Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication
EFA "Education for All"
EFECOT European Federation for the Education of the Children of the Occupational Travellers (Brussels)
ERIC Educational Resources Information Centre (USA)
ERTCEE European Research and Training Centre on Environmental Education, University of Bradford
ESCAP United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council (Swindon, UK)
EU European Union
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome)
FAWE Forum for African Women Educationalists (Nairobi, Kenya)
FAWEZA Forum for African Women Educationalists of Zambia
FIS Foundation for International Studies
FIT Fiji Institute of Technology
FIT Foundation for International Training (Don Mills, ON)
FOCODLA Federation of Commonwealth Open and Distance Learning Association
FRCH Foundation for Research in Community Health
GATE Global Alliance for Transnational Education
GATS General Agreement on Trade and Services
GDENet Global Distance Education Network
GHADEA Ghanaian Distance Education Association
GKP Global Knowledge Partnership (World Bank initiative)
GMS Gender Management System
GNAT Ghana National Association of Teachers
GOs Governmental Organisations
GTZ German Development Agency
HEQC Higher Education Quality Council (London, UK)
IACE Institute of Adult and Continuting Education, University of Guyana
IADB Inter-American Development Bank
IARC International Agricultural Research Centre
IAU International Association of Universities
IBE International Bureau of Education (UNESCO agency) (Geneva, Switzerland)
IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank agency)
ICAE International Council for Adult Education
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation
ICAR Indian Council for Agricultural Research
ICDE International Council for Open and Distance Education
ICDL International Centre for Distance Learning (U.K)
ICEM International Council for Educational Media
I-CONSENT Indian Consortium for Education Transfer of Information
ICRISAT International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
ICSID International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (World Bank agency)
ICT Information and Communications Technologies
IDA International Development Association (World Bank agency)
IDEA Indian Distance Education Association
IDERA International Development Education Resource Association (Vancouver)
IDLN Indonesian Distance Learning Network
IDP IDP Education Australia
IDRC International Development Research Centre (Ottawa)
IEC International Extension College (Cambridge, UK)
IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
