The Impact of Open Education on Health Professional Training: From Open Educational Resources to MOOCs

Education is an essential factor for advancing the societies through equipping the next generations with expected knowledge and skills. The more educationalEducational opportunities are provided, the more improvement in the society occurs. The advent of the Internet supports expanding such opportunities in convenient feasible ways. As a matter of fact, open education movementMovements began to democratize education and its proponents believe in removing the barriersBarrier to achieve this goal and taking advantage of the benefits of opennessOpenness. This movementMovements has had a dramatic impact on the higher education sector, including health professional education. Hence, in this chapterChapter, we are going to describe the transition of open education to open educationalEducational resources and then toward MOOCsMassive open online courses (MOOCs) pedagogy. Afterward, we will review some informationInformation on MOOCsMassive open online courses (MOOCs) and its creationCreation process. Finally, we end up with a case study from Iran in developing a regional MOOCsMassive open online courses (MOOCs) platform.