Since 1996, the UCI’s Electronic Educational Environment (EEE –
eee.uci.edu) course management system has been an integral part of UCI’s
strong educational mission. With a high participation rate of 100% of
students and 98% of faculty, EEE has been the primary academic portal
driving instructional technology needs of the UCI campus.

EEE offers over 20 instructional and administrative applications to all
UCI instructors and students ranging from course Web sites, online
MessageBoard, Chat, GradeBook, teaching Evaluations, Quiz tool, and
rosters, to DropBox, Surveys, and many more. Services provided by EEE
facilitate and promote student and faculty communication and enhance the
teaching and learning experience at UCI.

For over a decade, EEE has become one of the most popular and highly
regarded technological systems across the campus. With 4.1 million hits
per day, EEE is the second most frequently visited Web site on campus.
EEE’s competitive advantage and its remarkable successful history stem
from 1) maintaining direct and productive partnerships with faculty and
key constituent units (OIT, Library, Registrar, and DUE); 2) creating a
faculty-driven custom-built system, shaped over the past many years with
direct faculty input and experience.

EEE is an effectively and efficiently run enterprise system which presents
enormous cost, time, and resource saving opportunities to faculty,
teaching assistants, and administrative support staff (e.g. teaching
evaluations, grading, online quizzes, and Rapid Return).

It is critical to continue to build on this success and adapt to the
drastically changing need of our students and faculty due to the
economical pressure. We must rethink instructional technology offerings,
develop and support more flexibility, allow for innovation and creativity,
and prepare to integrate with variety of teaching styles and formats (such
as hybrid and online). In order to maintain UCI’s highest standards for
teaching, we must continue to invest, support expansion of instructional
technology offerings, and follow through the University’s strategic plan
statement, as stated, “Goal: experiment with new forms of teaching and
learning in and outside of the classrooms. Integrate technological support
more thoroughly into traditional classes and explore more uses for
distance learning and Web-based instruction …” (Page 69).