

MARIA DOLORES CASTRILLO DE LARRETA-AZELAIN
DIR. DPTO. FILOLOGÍAS EXTRANJERAS Y SUS LINGÜÍSTICAS
PROFESORA TITULAR UNIVERSIDAD
FILOLOGÍAS EXTRANJERAS Y SUS LINGÜÍSTICAS
FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA
(+34) 91398-9236
Academic Information
BA in German Philology (UCM, 1985)
PhD in Philology (UNED, 2004)
Research activity
Member of the ATLAS (Applying Technology to LAnguageS) and the GLOBE (Innovative Didactic Group for Languages in Open and Blended Environments) groups , her current research interests include MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Open Educational Resources (OERs), Computer-Mediated Communication, Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) and Social Networks for Language Learning.
She has participated in 10 European and national research projects and 5 projects based on art. 83 LOU, for the transfer of R&D to the productive sector, the last of which, as main researcher, carried out under an agreement between the UNED and Telefónica Educación Digital.
She has delivered papers at more than 30 international conferences, and has taken part in over 25 seminars and international conferences, 3 of them as plenary speaker.
Professional experience
She is a member of the UNESCO Chair of Distance Education (CUED) and her academic work is carried out at the National University of Distance Education, where she is a member of the Doctoral School and teaches official Masters and Degree courses. She has supervised four Doctoral Theses, more than thirty Master's Theses and fifteen Degree Theses and twelve final projects. She has also taught postgraduate courses at institutions and universities such as the UCM (Doctorate with mention of quality), the UCJC, and the Instituto Cervantes.I
In 2016 she created the consolidated intradisciplinary Teaching Innovation Group (GID) of the UNED "Innovative Didactic Group for Languages in Open and Blended Environments - GLOBE", (director of the same 2016-2021) where she has obtained and coordinated to date three funded competitive projects of teaching innovation.
She has also carried out the following professional activities, among others:
- Member of the Special Interest Group on Language MOOCs in EuroCALL (European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning).
- Reviewer of prestigious international journals, such as the following: Computer Assisted Language Learning (JCR Q1); Language Learning & Technology (JCR Q1); ReCALL (JCR Q1), International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (SJR, Q1).
- Member of the scientific committee of national and international journals of recognised prestige (among others, RIED, EuroCall Review, Verbeia).
- Member of the organising committee at international conferences.
- Member of the scientific committee at international conferences.
- Adviser to the National Institute for Educational Evaluation, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
- Specialist German language adviser to the selection board for the entrance examinations for the State Corps of Industrial Engineers.
She has participated in national and international conferences and seminars at universities and other institutions. Among the most recent international ones, she has been invited as a plenary speaker at "e-Learning Korea 2019: Conference" (Seoul, Korea), LWMOOOCs 2018 (Madrid, Spain), BMBWF - IKK (Vienna, Austria), ICRISH 2018 (Rome, Italy) and has participated in CALICO 2019 (Montreal, Canada), EUROCALL 2018 (Jyväskylä, Finland), Vital 2017 (Hasselt, Belgium), EUROCALL 2017 (Southhampton-UK), among others.
Educational management experience
Director of the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics since September 2021. She has also held the position of Vice-Dean of Students and Research, Coordinator of Mobility in the Faculty of Philology and Academic Secretary of the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics. She has been coordinator or member of several departmental and faculty committees, as well as an elected member of the Faculty Board and the University Senate.
Teaching
Asignaturas de Grado:
- 64020023 - ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA
- 64022111 - LENGUA EXTRANJERA II: ALEMÁN
- 64024110 - TRABAJO FIN DE GRADO (ESTUDIOS INGLESES)
- 64012041 - LENGUA MODERNA II. LENGUA EXTRANJERA: ALEMÁN
- 64011030 - LENGUA EXTRANJERA I: ALEMÁN
Asignaturas de Master:
- 24409297 - OPEN LANGUAGE LEARNING

N.º of recognized sections of teacher evaluation
4Research
INVESTIGATION GROUPS
- ATLAS - APPLYING ATLAS is a consolidated interdisciplinary research group of the UNED that was created at the end of the 20th century. The general objective in its twenty years of existence has been to carry out research in Applied English Linguistics and to contribute to the progress of this discipline from a dual linguistic and technological perspective, given that its members are university teachers of second languages or engineers interested in the application of technological advances to their teaching. +info
- GLOBE- Innovative Didactic Group for Languages in Open and Blended Environments GLOBE is an interdisciplinary Teaching Innovation Group founded in 2016 whose main objective is the implementation of the results of its research in the field of ICT for the development of linguistic-communicative competences in second languages of university students in hybrid and online environments (which can also be, nowadays: collaborative, open, mobile, etc.) in the Bachelor and Master subjects taught by the teachers of the group, in order to improve the participation, performance and success rates of students
PROYECTOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN
- PID2021-128182OB-100 ÁGORA, (Innovación tecnológica y metodológica para la enseñanza de lenguas y generación de sinergias en el ámbito rural). Programa Estatal de Generación del Conocimiento del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. 1/9/2022-30/8/2025.
- 2019-1-ES01-KA203-065861, ECCOE (European Credit Clearinghouse for Opening up Education) European Commission. Erasmus + Programme. 01/09/2019- 31/08/2022. 2019-1-ES01-KA203-065861, ECCOE (European Credit Clearinghouse for Opening up Education) European Commission. Erasmus + Programme. 01/09/2019- 31/08/2022.
- 2019-1-ES01-KA203-065861, NEXUS (Promoting the nexus of migrants through active citizenship) European Commission. Erasmus + Programme. Read, (IP). 01/09/2019- 31/08/2022. 2019-1-ES01-KA203-065861, NEXUS (Promoting the nexus of migrants through active citizenship) European Commission. Erasmus + Programme. Read, (IP). 01/09/2019- 31/08/2022.
- 2017-1-DE01-KA203-003546, OEPass (Open Education Passport) European Commission. Erasmus + Programme. 01/11/2017- 31/01/2020. 2017-1-DE01-KA203-003546, OEPass (Open Education Passport) European Commission. Erasmus + Programme. 01/11/2017- 31/01/2020.
- FFI2016-80613-P, SWITCHED-ON. La potenciación del aprendizaje de lenguas social, abierto y masivo a través de la tecnología móvil: aprovechamiento de interacciones, transgresión de límites Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. 30/12/2016-30/12/2019. FFI2016-80613-P, SWITCHED-ON. La potenciación del aprendizaje de lenguas social, abierto y masivo a través de la tecnología móvil: aprovechamiento de interacciones, transgresión de límites Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. 30/12/2016-30/12/2019.
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2016-1-ES01-KA203-025731, MOONLITE (Massive Open ONline courses enhancing LInguistic and Transversal skills for social inclusion and Employability) European Commission. Erasmus + Programme. 01/10/2016- 30/10/2019.
2016-1-ES01-KA203-025731, MOONLITE (Massive Open ONline courses enhancing LInguistic and Transversal skills for social inclusion and Employability) European Commission. Erasmus + Programme. 01/10/2016- 30/10/2019.
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H2015/HUM3426, Edición Literaria Electrónica (eLITE-CM) Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid. Goicoechea, M. 01/01/2016- 30/06/2019.
H2015/HUM3426, Edición Literaria Electrónica (eLITE-CM) Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid. Goicoechea, M. 01/01/2016- 30/06/2019.
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CIP-ICT-PSP-2013-7, Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning. European Commission. Competitiveness & Innovation Framework Programme. 01/02/2014-31/01/2017.
CIP-ICT-PSP-2013-7, Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning. European Commission. Competitiveness & Innovation Framework Programme. 01/02/2014-31/01/2017.
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SO-CALL-ME: Entorno de aprendizaje móvil y social de lenuas cognitivamente aumentado y basado en una ontología Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. 01/01/2012-31/12/2014.
SO-CALL-ME: Entorno de aprendizaje móvil y social de lenuas cognitivamente aumentado y basado en una ontología Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. 01/01/2012-31/12/2014.
N.º of recognized sections of research activity
2Publications
- PUBLICATIONS IN MAGAZINES SCHOLAR

Other activities
Summer coursesSpecific information about summer courses
Permanent education- Directora del curso: Alemán jurídico para la carrera judicial (certificado de Actualización Profesional)
- Directora del curso: Alemán para la hostelería (Certificado de Enseñanza Abierta)
- Colaboradora del curso: Aprendizaje de Lenguas con Materiales Digitales (Certificado de Formación del Profesorado)
- Department Director (2021- today)
- Research and Mobility Vice-Dean Faculty of Philology UNED (2009-2011)
- Department Secretary. Foreign Languages Department UNED. (2016-2020)
Patents, intellectual property, knowledge transfer
- VIOLIN App for English listening practice (2020). ATLAS. Research Group. Reg. CAM 16/2020/4914.
- Business App for English Learning. (2018). ATLAS Research Group. Reg. CAM 16/2018/2852.
Training merits
- Outstanding Doctorate Award (2004). PhD Thesis on the use of internet for Language Learning.
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