
Vision
Creating a world-class education available to anyone, anywhere and anytime through the use of innovative technology to improve teaching and learning.
Mission
Our mission is the provision of convenient, high-quality, virtual education to the diverse population and advocacy of forward-looking, technology-driven optimism of UMT across the academic board.
Goals

UMT-CONNECTED aims to accomplish the following goals to:
- Provide progressive education to adults wishing to acquire new skills and knowledge
- Develop a platform to offer courses facilitated by professors of different universities from home and abroad
- Design and conduct training programs on educational technology for in-house and external faculty members
- Neutralise the hindrances caused by time challenges, campus-physical facility limitations and distance constraints in the delivery of education
- Provide a forum for conferences, seminars, workshops, lectures and related activities for the discussion of new developments and ideas in educational technology, eLearning and associated disciplines
- Provide educational services to individuals - lacking access to conventional learning - by catering to their general educational needs countrywide and worldwide
- Fulfil the fundamental requirements of the community, business, industry, and government while staying responsive to society, educational equity and fiscal conditions of a rapidly-changing educational environment
- Research and develop educational content on different platforms such as MOOC, OER and LOS
- Research and establish effective pedagogics to achieve the highest standard of education while staying up-to-date with the latest trends in educational technology
- Research and evaluate different models of instructional design on new educational tools such as the development of intelligent and adaptive tutoring systems
- Invite faculty to participate in the improvement of pedagogies in their disciplines using the latest tools and resources
- Encourage faculty to share and pursue their ideas in collaborative research to improve teaching practices
