Impact of Online Education in Jordan: Results from the MUREE Project

The MUREE project addresses the needs of Jordanian Universities to modernize the learning of Engineering related to renewable energies in collaboration with European Universities. After the implementation of several courses, which combined online learning with traditional teaching in most cases, it is time to analyze and verify the benefits o f t his approach in the Jordanian society. In particular, this paper outlines the results obtained with this project, from three points of view: educational impact, research impact, and socio-economic impact. Results detail the students’ participation, their profile in terms of training and required skills, and some aspects about recruitment of future professionals in renewable energies.