OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Bold initiatives for change such as OER and OPLI are not easy, but this, as Machiavelli[1] reminds us, is nothing new.
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things; for the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order; this lukewarmness arising from the incredulity of mankind who does not truly believe in anything new until they actually have experience of it.
- ↑ Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, translated by Daniel Donno (Bantam Classics: New York, 1986).
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