Marion Hall

 

Contact Details

Dr Marion Hall

Faculty of Health and Social Care

Open University

Milton Keynes

MK7 6AA

UK

email: m.j.hall@open.ac.uk

 

Position

Lecturer in Health and Social Care

Current teaching

I work mainly on eLearning. At present I have two main areas of involvement:

The HSC Resource Bank
The HSC Resource Bank – a repository of online learning materials shared across courses – has been developed by the SORRS (Shared Online Resources Repository System) Project team. As lead academic of the project, I liaise with course teams about adding new materials to the Bank and about keeping existing resources up to date, and advise on integrating existing materials into courses. I am also developing a series of ICT and numeracy skills activities for inclusion in the Bank.

K217 Health and social care in practice
I am a member of the core team for this new course being produced for presentation in 2010. My main role is in devising the assessment for the course and in integrating materials from the HSC Resource Bank into the teaching. In particular, I am working on the strategy for developing and assessing ICT and information literacy skills. Skills teaching will based on the generic skills activities available in the Bank but the activities will be closely integrated into the context of the course.

Previous courses

Before joining the Faculty of Health and Social Care in December 2005, I had worked in the Science Faculty of the Open University since 1988. During this time, I contributed to a number of Science and interdisciplinary courses, including:

U316 The Environmental Web

SD226 Biological Psychology

S103 Discovering Science

U205 Health and Disease

S326 Ecology

SD206 Biology: Brain and Behaviour

S365 Evolution

S324 Animal Physiology

Teaching materials

HSC Resource Bank: online, interactive ICT, information literacy and numeracy skills activities.

U316 The Environmental Web: web and CD-ROM based activities; assessment.

S103 Discovering Science: section on speciation for Book 9; multimedia tutorials Galapagos: adaptation and evolution on islands and Holly leaf miner. 

SD206 Biology: Brain and Behaviour: Chapter on Behaviour and Adaptation for Book 1, joint editor of Book 1, TV programme A conflict of interests; video Analysis of Behaviour; audiocassette Problems of Mind and Brain; assessment; practicals and multimedia tutorials for residential school.

S365 Evolution: Chapter on Species, Speciation and Extinction; assessment.

S324 Animal Physiology: assessment.

Multimedia CD-ROMs on The Human Brain and The Human Nervous System, used in several OU courses.

Research Interests

My research interests lie in eLearning. Currently, I am particularly interested in:

·        the use of repositories and integration of generic materials into courses

·        the development of ICT, information literacy and numeracy skills

I previously carried out extensive research into the use of computer-based materials in Science higher education.

I am currently a referee for the journals British Journal of Eductional Technology and Health and Social Care in the Community.

I have previously also carried out biological research on animal behaviour and evolution, in particular on social relationships. 

My most recent research looked at mate choice and intrasexual competition in the bush cricket Leptophyes punctatissima.

Previously I worked on the determinants of dominance and the relationships between status, territory and mating success among peafowl (Pavo cristatus) in a feral population at Whipsnade Zoo.

The research for my D.Phil was concerned with mother–offspring relationships and social organization in red deer (Cervus elaphus) on the Isle of Rum in Scotland. 

 

I am also interested in speciation, particularly the role of behaviour in this process.

Brief CV

2009-present: Subject Adviser in e-learning, Higher Education Academy Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre

2005-present: Lecturer in Health and Social Care, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Open University.

2001-2005: External Examiner, School of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University.

1996-2000: Member of the Advisory Committee to the CTI Centre for Biology at Liverpool University. 

1995-2000: Secondment as Lecturer in Biology (New Technology), Department of Biological Sciences, Open University.

1994-1999: Council Member of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour and Officer of the Society (Newsletter Editor).

1988-2005: Course Manager, Department of Biological Sciences, Open University

1986-1988: Diplomatic Service.

1982-1986: Assistant Editor for the journal Animal Behaviour.

1979-1981: Lecturer in Vertebrate Zoology, University of Gezira, Sudan

1978: DPhil, University of Sussex, UK.

1974: BSc (Honours) in Biology, University of Sussex, UK

Selected publications

Robinson, D. J and Hall, M. J. (2002) Sound signalling in Orthoptera.  Advances in Insect Physiology, 29, 151-278.

Hall, M., Tucknott, G. & Robinson, D. (1998) The Human Brain: a shell-based multimedia tutorial with qualitative assessment.  Life Sciences Educational Computing, 9, 7–8.

Hall, M. J., Robinson, D. J., Tucknott, G. and Carlton, T. (1998).  A multimedia tutorial shell with qualitative assessment in biology.  In: Computer Based Assessment (Volume 2): Case Studies in Science and Computing (ed. by D. Charman and A. Elmes), pp. 33–38.  Plymouth: SEED Publications, University of Plymouth.

Hall, M. J. and Robinson, D. (1998) Lost in hyperspace: linearity versus exploration in the design of multimedia for independent learners.  In: Global Education on the Net: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computers in Education, 1998 (ed by Tak-Wai Chan, Allan Collins andJianziang Lin), Volume 2, pp. 9–13.  Beijing: China Higher Education Press Beijing and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Hall, M., Robinson, D. and Anjaneyulu, K. S. R. (1997).  The Human Brain: a multimedia tutorial for the independent learner.  In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computers in Education, 1997 (ed. by Z. Halim, T. Ottmann and Z. Razak), pp. 1003–1005.  Charlottesville, Virginia: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Robinson, D. and Hall, M. (1996)  Producing educational multimedia — empowering individuals or building teams?  Proceedings of the 5th EDEN Conference: Lifelong Learning, Open Learning, Distance Learning (ed. by Frankl, J. and O’Reilly, B.), pp.51–54.  Milton Keynes: EDEN Secretariat.

Hall, M. and Robinson, D.  (1996)  A computer-based approach to neurophysiology practicals.  Life Sciences Educational Computing, 6 (3), 31.

Hall, M. and Robinson, D. (1995)  The Multimedia Brain.  Life Sciences Educational Computing, 6, 16–17.

Hall, M. and Robinson, D. (1995)  The Multimedia Brain.  Active Learning, 3 (December 1995), 36–41.

Hall, M. (1994) Hierarchy.  In Halliday, T. R. (ed.) Animal Behaviour, pp. 97–103.  London: Blandford.

Petrie, M., Hall, M., Halliday, T., Budgey, H. and Pierpoint, C. (1992)  Multiple mating in a lekking bird: why do peahens mate with more than one male and with the same male more than once?  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 31, 349–358.

Hall, M. J.  (1983) Social organization in an enclosed group of red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) on Rhum. I.  The dominance hierarchy of females and their offspring.  Zeitschrift fur Tierpsychologie, 61, 250–262.

Hall, M. J.  (1983)  Social organization in an enclosed group of red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) on Rhum. II.  Social grooming, mounting behaviour, spatial organization and their relationships to dominance rank.  Zeitschrift fur Tierpsychologie, 61, 273–292.

Guinness, F. E., Hall, M. J. & Cockerill, R  (1979)  Mother–offspring association in red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) on the Isle of Rhum.  Animal Behaviour, 27, 536–544.

 

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Date site created: February 2004

Date site last updated: January 2010