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Alan Vanbiervliet, PhD
Phone: (501) 686-7976  Fax: (501) 686-8350

Title: Professor and Director of Web-based Technology
Department: Nursing Science
PhD From: University of Kansas
Office: College of Nursing, ED II Building, 5/106B, Mail Slot 529
Teaching Specialty:
  • Educational Technology
  • Rehabilitation
  • Research Interests: Distributed learning technologies for healthcare professionals and consumers, use of digital technologies in rehabilitation, system level change strategies within healthcare. 
    Recent Awards or Honors
  • National Council on Family Relations 33rd Annual Media Awards Competition, Education Category (2001)
     
  • INTERCOM Silver Plaque Award, Interactive Multimedia Educational, International Film Video Competition (2000)
     
  • CINDY, Cinema in Industry, Education Division, International Association of Audio Visual Communicators (2000)
     
  • Top 100 Producers, AV Multimedia Producers Magazine (2000)
     
  • Bronze Quill, CD-ROM Interactive Education Division, International Association of Business Communicators/ AR Chapter (2000)
  • Research Grants:
  • Principal Investigator: "Development of Digital Support Resources for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programs". National Institute of Communication and Hearing Disorders, NIH,. 2001-2004.

  • Principal Investigator: "Wellness: A multimedia Guide to Multiple Sclerosis". Paralyzed Veterans of America Education and Training Foundation, 2000-2002.
     
  • Co-Project Director. "Arkansas Web-based Rural BSN Completion Program". L. Hodges, Director. Health Resources and Services Administration,. 1999-2004.
  • Recent Publication:
  • Boone, S., VanBiervliet, A. (2000). Communication Accommodations at Work (AcCOMModate): A resource for Workers Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press.
     
  • VanBiervliet, A, Parette, HP (2000). Families, Cultures and Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Multimedia professional and parent education book distributed internationally on CD-ROM by Program Development Associates.
     
  • Parette, H. P., VanBiervliet, A, & Hourcade, J. J. (2000). Assistive technology decision-making and families across cultures. Journal of Special Education Technology. 15(1).
     
  • VanBiervliet, A. (1999). Multimedia and SCI: Educational strategies for the 21st century. Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation. 5(3) 33-49.
  • Presentations:
  • VanBiervliet, A. Wellness: A Multimedia Guide on Multiple Sclerosis. Presented at the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers 15th Annual Conference, Las Vegas September 4-6, 2001.
  • VanBiervliet, A. Access issues and strategies for students with disabilities in distance learning. Presented at the Conference on Public Health Informatics & Distance Learning. Columbus, OH, August 5-7, 2001.

  • VanBiervliet, A. Educational Technologies for Rehabilitation in the 21st Century. 77th Annual Meeting of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hilton Head, SC, October, 2000.
     
  • Boone, S,. VanBiervliet, A , & Lefebure, H. Sailing Through Troubled Waters: Obtaining Workplace Communication Accommodations. Presented at the 15th International Society Self Help for Hard of Hearing, Minneapolis, June 2000.
     
  • Boone, S,. & VanBiervliet, A Using multimedia technology to enhance job seeking and workplace accommodation. Presented at the National Conference on Innovations in Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Deafness. Saint Louis, May 2000.
  • Consultations: Member of the Medical Technology and Computing Study Section, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health. 

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