This resource is for ARC faculty, staff, and managers. For student resources, go to ARC Online.
American River College, as a premier learning community, provides distance education that serves our students in a manner that is consistent with the college’s overall vision to transform and enrich the lives of our students.
Watch this video which was presented to the LRCCD Board of Trustees in April, 2012
DE Course Guidelines & Rubrics
- ARC Academic Senate Resolution Supporting Use of the Online Education Initiative’s Course Design Rubric
- Online Education Initiative (OEI) Course Design Rubric (Updated April 2020)
- This Online Equity Rubric from the Peralta Community College District is designed to be used in conjunction with the OEI Rubric
- Accessibility Checklist (Penn State)
- ARC DE Course Checklist (From previous accreditation cycle)
Review the “Is your course Accreditation-ready?” prior to completing the Checklist above.
DE/Technology Planning
- ARC Distance Education Plan 2019
- ARC Distance Education Plan 2015
- ARC Distance Education Plan (2008)
- ARC Technology Master Plan 2014-2019
DE Policies & Standards
- American River College Curriculum Committee Standards for Regular Effective Contact and Regular and Substantive Interaction in Online Classes
- LRCCD Distance Education Policy 7145
DE Training
- ARC Online Teaching Institute
- ARC Accessible Course Creation Academy
- ARC Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Institute
- Instructional Technology Center workshops
- Los Rios FastTrack OEI Rubric Academy
- @ONE Courses and their Course Design and Online Teaching Certificates
DE Statistics and Data for ARC
- ARC Certificates & Degrees Approved for DE
- ARC Distance Education (2013): A comprehensive series of reports that examines demography and compare enrollments and student success for online and face-to-face classrooms over five years. (See the most recent DE plan for more up-to-date data.)
- ARC Historical Distance Education/Desire2Learn Course Counts
DE Surveys
- CCC Chancellor’s Office Distance Education report – 2017
- LRCCD DE Student Satisfaction Survey Fall 2013 – ARC Results
- CCC Chancellor’s Office Distance Education “W” Survey – Fall 2010
The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior
- ACCJC Policy and Distance Education and Correspondence Education – 2021
- ARC Substantive Change approval – Nov 2020 (programs that can be completed 50% or more online)
- ARC Substantive Change Report 2014
- Guide to Evaluating Distance Education and Correspondence Education (2013, from previous accreditation cycle)