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Mission
The College of Online Education:
The mission of the College of Online Education is to provide a high-quality, global online educational experience, based on a philosophy of vitalism, that maximizes each student’s innate potential to pursue their goals and assume roles in leadership and the workplace through the application and principles of lasting purpose.
Vision
The vision of the College of Online Education is to become a global destination of choice for online education in high-demand fields, and to do so in virtue of the high-quality teaching, learning, and support experience.
Values
The College of Online Education is guided by seven values, as follows:
Faculty Values
1. Commitment to Quality
o To enact our promise of a high-quality, global online educational experience, faculty will practice quality at three levels: the administration of online programs, the design and development of online courses, and the teaching and learning in the online classroom.
2. Student Centrism
o Being student-centric refers to making all decisions with students’ wellbeing and growth in mind. Life University’s goal is putting students first to maximize each student’s innate potential to pursue their goals and to prepare them, to the best of our abilities and resources, to become successful leaders in tomorrow’s workplace.
3. Globalism
o As the internet is making the world a “global village”, students compete for jobs not only at the local, county, state, and national level, but also on an international level. The goal, therefore, is to prepare learners to be successful in a global society.
4. Anytime, Anywhere Access
o Lack of access is one of the most significant barriers to educational attainment. Since Life University serves an adult learning population, faculty should be committed to providing access by delivering all course instruction and activities asynchronously, allowing students to complete them anytime within a given week, around their busy adult schedules. By creating an “anytime, anywhere” learning environment allowing students maximum flexibility in how and when they complete their schoolwork within each given week.
5. Professionalism
o Professionalism is manifest in how we present ourselves to students through our biographies, professional photographs, course orientations, informative weekly announcements, frequent and substantive feedback, proctored high-stakes exams, timely grades, overall appropriate levels of communication in all forums, compliance with copyright law, and commitment to accessibility.
For complete details, see the Compass Online Faculty Expectations document on the Faculty Senate Blackboard page- under Shared Documents
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