Implementating new strategies for autonomous learning in first-year students

University training is more than the academic development of the student. The acquisition of certain competences, the know-how in specific situations applying knowledge, as well as skills and attitudes are also essential in the learning process. The paper shows the educational strategy implemented involving first-year students. The goal is that the students learn skills and resources destined to organise and to plan themselves facing the autonomous work. In addition, they improve their academic performance. Due mainly to the inexperience of these students, their difficulties for a project where they must work in an autonomous way and that it requires a planning in time have been evident. The proposed strategies set out a certain number of support guidelines for autonomous learning, which allow to improve the results. To this end, a work planning is carried out, and assessed tutorials are scheduled, where in each one of them the items marked in the calendar must be presented. Tools are used to analyse both the functioning and usefulness of the procedure, and the improvement in learning results.