Autonomous learning involves taking primary responsibility for planning, implementing, and evaluating one's own study. The document discusses cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies. Cognitive strategies operate directly on information by manipulating it to enhance learning, while metacognitive strategies involve knowledge about one's own cognitive processes. Examples of cognitive strategies include repetition, translation, note-taking, and question asking. Metacognitive strategies include directing attention, self-monitoring, self-evaluation, and self-reinforcement.