The university center of languages at a distance
better known as the CUID, is a teaching unit
specializing in the teaching of languages
that depends on the Vice-Rectorate of continuous learning.
It is a center equivalent to the language institutes
that exist in many Spanish universities.
Its purpose is to promote the languages learning
through the nearly fifteen partner centers of the UNED
that collaborate with the CUID.
Our levels are adapted
to those of the Common European Framework
of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
At present our offer is
thirteen languages in different levels of English,
French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish,
Catalan, Galician, Euskara, Chinese, Russian,
Arabic and Japanese.
The CUID teaches its distance studies according
to the methodology of the UNED,
a blended method
in which diverse means of training are combined,
such as face-to-face tutorials,
printed and multimedia didactic materials,
designed for autonomous learning in different formats,
collaborative workspaces and telematics communications
in the virtual classrooms of the UNED.
The technological resources that the CUID makes
available to students are designed to improve
the quality of teaching
but its use is not compulsory for the student.
These are support contents, didactic activities,
various exercises of self-correction
and spaces of communication
between students and teachers.
These resources of great utility for the student,
are provided by the CUID through the virtual space
of the UNED and the telematics classrooms
of the associated centers.
The face-to-face tutorials are organized
by the CUID partner centers.
They are support tutorials for groups
between 12 to 25 students.
In addition to the tutorials,
the partner centers have telematics classrooms
with multimedia computers connected to the Internet.
From these classrooms, the students will be able
to access the distance training spaces.
Finally, the CUID offers the possibility
for its students to attend their exams
in any associated center of the UNED in the world.
To sign up in the CUID no academic degree is required.
The only requirement is to be 18 years old.
The student before applying for registration application,
can take a level test that appears on our website
to determine which level is the best that fits
his previous knowledge.
Among the issues that may be
most interesting for students is that the A2 level
of the CUID allows access to the intermediate level
teachings of the official language schools
in the corresponding language
throughout the national territory.
Also, students will be able
to obtain academic recognition of credits
for bachelor's degrees at UNED.
The A2 level is equivalent to
one credit for the bachelor's degree
and levels B1, B2, C1 and C2
are equivalent to two credits.
For bachelor's degrees of old plans the UNED grants
four elective credits to each of these diplomas
starting from basic level A2 with a maximum
of eight credits accumulated per language.
But the CUID is more than an institute
of university languages.
Being made up mostly of teachers
of the faculty of philology,
we are specially sensitive to new research techniques.
In this way, the CUID has participated
in three projects of teaching innovation focused
particularly on the use of AVIP classrooms
for language learning.
In addition, in some languages of the CUID,
a new e-oral computer application is being used,
because of the research of the teachers
of the philology faculty, Laura Alba and Mónica Aragonés.
This application allows the realization
of oral exams remote if it is used
with a computer that has webcam.