Arabian Gulf University Board of Trustees approved the establishment of the Distance Teaching and Training Program in 2003.
"Research Tracks cover the following : Designing, developing and evaluating effective e-learning and training materials, programs and virtual environments."
"2018 Alajab Mohammed Alajab. Empowering Your Students Satisfaction with Blended Learning: A Lesson from the Arabian Gulf University Distance Teaching and Training Program . International Journal of Information and Education Technology ;8(2):108-120..."
Students admitted directly to the Master's Program in Distance Teaching and Training are required to complete twelve educational packages; ten of them are taken in the first year and the remaining two packages in the second
Teaching/learning practices in this program are based on the same theoretical and practical frameworks employed in the practices of distance learning.