Gagne's model of information processing and the hierarchical model of eight types of learning moving from simple to complex forms, have significant implications for distance education. Instruction should be designed in such a way that the second step is taken only after the first one is thoroughly accomplished. The various events of instruction suggested by him are immensely helpful to the course designers. These sequenced events guide successfully not only conventional classroom teachers but also distance teachers, television script writers, and instructional designers. Stimulus in the form of diagrams, charts, etc. in the learning materials presented through video tapes or television appeals to the interests and curiosity of all types of learner. Every distance learner is to be informed of the objectives and of how she would know when she has learned-what is expected of hider. The course materials are to be written in such a way that each unit stimulates the learner to recapitulate what has been learnt in the previous unit. You may notice this approach being followed in the units of the block which you are now going ‘through. In distance learning the