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, affordable and high-quality virtual education for the diverse population while advocating the forward-looking, technology-driven optimism of UMT across all academic disciplines.
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 seeking help from professors at different universities both at home and abroad
- Design and conduct training programs on educational technology for in-house and external faculty members
- Offset time challenges, campus-physical facility limitations and distance constraints in the delivery and utilization of educational sector
- 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 participation in conventional learning by catering the general educational needs countrywide and worldwide
- Meet and serve the particular requirements of the community, business, industry, and government
- Be responsive to society, educational equity and fiscal conditions, as well as demonstrate competitiveness in 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 keeping abreast 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 enhancement 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
