A

ACI

American Competitive Initiative – the Administration’s competitiveness proposal

AHRD

Academy of Human Resource Development – association for professors

ALC

ASTD Leadership Conference – annual conference for chapter leaders

AMS

Association management system – software for membership records, financials, etc.

AOE

Area of Expertise – in ASTD Competency Study: the specialized knowledge/skill an individual needs over the foundational competencies.

APB

ASTD Policy Brief

ASTD CI

ASTD’s Certification Institute.

B

BEST

ASTD awards for organizations that are BEST at Building talent, Enterprise-wide, Supported

by the organization’s leaders, fostering a Thorough learning culture.

BLS

Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. government

BMF

ASTD’s Benchmarking Forum – consortium of private and public sector organizations

BRG

Business Relations Group (division of Employment and Training Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor)

C

CAEL

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning

CBS

See ChAMP

CBT

Computer-based training

ChAMP

CHapter Administration & Membership Program (formerly Chapter Billing Service) – ASTD provides this option to chapters to reduce their administrative responsibilities: membership billing, invoicing, reporting service.

ChIPs

CHapter Incentive Program – revenue sharing program for chapters who promote ASTD products and services

CEU

Continuing education unit – a recognized method of quantifying participation in an education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified instruction. One CEU is 10 contact hours spent in such an educational experience. CEUs provide a permanent record of the educational accomplishments of an individual who has completed significant non-credit educational and career enhancement activities. CEUs are especially important to those who seek to maintain a credential.

CHCOs

Chief human capital officers – required (as a result of ASTD’s action) in each agency of the U.S. federal government.

CI Board

ASTD’s Certification Institute Board of Directors.

C-Level

Executives with “C’ in  their titles, including chief executive officer, chief learning officer, chief financial officer, chief information officer.

CLC

ASTD’s Chapter Leaders Community on the website.

CLO

Chief learning officer

CMS

Content management system – web development platform that allows users to create, manage, and distribute dynamic, customized, and personalized content through the web.

COC

Council on Competitiveness

COHRMA

Council of Human Resource Management Associations – ASTD’s president is a member

COMPETE

   Act

Collaborative Opportunities to Mobilize and Promote Education, Technology, and Enterprise Act of 2005

CompTIA

Computing Technology Industry Association

CORE

Chapter Operating Requirements – baseline standards that all ASTD chapters must meet annually to maintain their charters

CPLP

Certified Professional in Learning and Performance. This certification program is sponsored by the ASTD Certification Institute. 

CRM

Customer relationship management – methodologies, software, and Internet capabilities that help a company identify and categorize customers and manage relationships with them.

CRC

ASTD’s Chapter Recognition Committee that recognizes chapter best practices and administers the chapter awards program.

CSTD

Canadian Society for Training & Development

C-Suite

See C-Level

CxOs

See C-Level

D

DO IT

Digital Opportunity Investment Trust

DOL

U.S. Department of Labor

DRM

Digital rights management

E

ECC

ASTD’s E-Learning Courseware Certification for asynchronous web-based & multimedia

courses

ED

U.S. Department of Education

ELW

ASTD’s Employee Learning Week

EOY

End of year

EPSS

Electronic performance support system

ERP

Enterprise resource planning – the technological backbone of e-business, an enterprise-wide transaction framework with links to sales order processing, production and distribution planning, inventory management and control, finance, and human resources. 

ETA

Employment and Training Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor

G

GN

Global network - ASTD affiliates who meet locally outside of the US. Each has an organizing

committee with a steering chair.

GLS

Government Learning Solutions – ASTD’s offerings for the public sector (federal, state, and local)

H

HHS

U.S. Health and Human Services

HPI

Human performance improvement

HRD

Human resource development

HRDQ

Human Resource Development Quarterly – research journal co-sponsored by ASTD and the Academy of HRD

HRO

Human resource outsourcing

I

ICE

ASTD’s International Conference & Exposition

IDP

Individual development plan

IFTDO

International Federation of Training and Development Organizations –  ASTD is a founding member

IODA

International Organization Development Association

IP

Intellectual property

ISD

Instructional systems design

ISPI

International Society for Performance Improvement

ITM

Integrated talent management

J

JIT

Just-in-time

L

LAN

Local-area network

LCMS

Learning content management system – software application (or set of applications) that manages the creation, storage, use, and reuse of learning content. An LCMS often stores content in granular forms such as learning objects.

LCN

Leader Connection Newsletter for ASTD chapter leaders.

LDT

Leadership Development Team – ASTD committee for chapter leaders’ orientation and development, and the planning group for the ASTD Leadership Conference

LiLAs

Lifelong Learning Accounts