Today seven team members from UCI’s IT and Academic Personnel organizations are going to UC San Diego to attend a workshop on their newly launched online Academic Personnel System (APOL). Since Novemember 2009, series of discussions and conversations between key players from each campus has resulted in a successful collaboration for sharing enterprise systems where both campus developers are fully engaged in creating a unified application that serves both campuses AP needs.

Currently, my team is in the mist of series of projects to develop academic applications for UCI campus. First, we will expand UCI’s online Recruit (http://recurit.ap.uci.edu) to be used by UC San Diego campus, then we will be developing along side UC San Diego IT team the UCI’s first online faculty promotion and review system.

The new movement toward integrating IT at UCI will present our IT professionals with opportunities to work more collaboratively, efficiently, and creatively. Its all about  how one perceives the “Change”!

UCI’s second Instructional Technology Faculty forum was a huge success! thanks to Kelsey Layos from NACS. It is such a delight and amazing experience to listen to faculty about how they incorporate technology into teaching. I was impressed to hear our EEE gradebook can be used to distribute information to class or quiz tool could be used to collect essays. Read more about this event at eee.uci.edu.