Abbreviations and Acronyms

Applications and Media

CAQDAS – Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (Wikipedia contributors, 2017)

OEP – Open Education Practices

OER – Open Educational Resources

OOETP – Online Open Electronic Textbook Publishing

File Formats

CSV – Comma-separated values (Wikipedia contributors, 2023d)

DOCX – Microsoft Word document Open XML (Learn about File Formats, 2014)

GIF – Graphics Interchange Format (Wikipedia contributors, 2023d)

HTML – HyperText Markup Language (Iqbal, 2019a)

JPEG – Joints Photographic Experts Group (Wikipedia contributors, 2023d)

MPEG – Moving Picture Experts Group (Wikipedia contributors, 2023d)

ODT – LibreOffice OpenDocument Text (The Document Foundation, n.d.)

PDF – Portable Document Format (Iqbal, 2019b)

PNG – Portable Network Graphics (Iqbal, 2019c)

PS – PostScript (Wikipedia contributors, 2023d)

RTF – Rich Text document (Wikipedia contributors, 2023d)

SVG – Scalar Vector Graphics (Iqbal, 2020)

TIFF – Tagged Image File Format (Wikipedia contributors, 2023d)

UTF-8 – Unicode Transformation Format 8-bit (Wikipedia contributors, 2023f)

WAV – Waveform Audio File Format (Wikipedia contributors, 2023g)

XML – eXtensible Markup Language (Wikipedia contributors, 2023d)

Institutions

AU – Athabasca University

SAIT – Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization