María de la Paz Adelia Peña Clavel is responsible for an Advisor Training Online Diploma Course at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is in charge of a Teletandem (etandem) project at the mediateca. She received her MA in Educational Technology through the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) in México. Her research interests are Teletandem, language learning strategies and autonomy.
The 2018 Independent Learning Association Conference was held at Konan Women’s University, Kobe, Japan, in September 2018 and brought together autonomy researchers from around the world under the theme Whose Autonomy? Voice and Agency in Language Learning. This collection of papers includes a variety of voices, from both classroom and non-classroom contexts, including from learners themselves.