Marion Hall
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Dr Marion Hall Faculty of Health and Social Care Open University MK7 6AA email: m.j.hall@open.ac.uk |
Lecturer in Health and
Social Care
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.
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
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.
My research interests lie in eLearning. Currently, I am
particularly interested in:
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the use of repositories and integration of generic materials
into courses
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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.
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My
most recent research looked at mate choice and intrasexual competition in the
bush cricket Leptophyes punctatissima.
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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. |
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The
research for my D.Phil was concerned with mother–offspring relationships and
social organization in |
I am also interested in
speciation, particularly the role of behaviour in this process.
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,
1996-2000:
Member of the Advisory Committee to the CTI Centre for Biology at
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,
1978:
DPhil,
1974:
BSc (Honours) in Biology,
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.
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.
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.
Robinson, D. and Hall, M. (1996)
Producing educational multimedia — empowering individuals or building
teams? Proceedings of the 5th
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.
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
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Date
site created: February 2004
Date
site last updated: January 2010