Dr. Otto Peters (born May 6, 1926) is the former rector and a professor emeritus at the FernUniversität in Hagen (University of Hagan) Germany. Dr. Peters has made contributions to the conceptual development of distance education. His main contribution to distance education was through his work on The Industrial Model. In this theory he describes distance education as the most industrial form of education. He incorporated business management literature to show the industrial characteristics of distance education such as division of labour, assembly line, mass production and planning. The majority of his work done has been done in German, however efforts have been made to translate it into English. He presently holds the title Prof. em. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c. mult Otto Peters.
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