Emerita Bañados is an associate professor of English, and Master of Educational Technology, at the Department of Foreign Languages, at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile. She founded UdeC English Online Programme, an interactive multimedia b-learning environment for communicative English teaching and learning. She led its methodological b-learning implementation, CALL interactive platform and materials design, and was the Director from 2001 to 2018. She had previously directed the creation of other internet projects such as a a Center of Web Resources, and a Language Café for learning English, French, and German. Her experience and research interests include language b-learning and e-learning environments, CALL materials design, Virtual Exchanges, task-based language teaching, collaborative work in intercultural video web interaction projects, and professional development. She started working in Virtual Exchanges in 2006 and has continued up to the present. She has presented widely at international conferences in Europe (WorldCALL, EUROCALL, IATEFL), and the United States (CALICO, TBLT); and has been invited as a Key Speaker at the APEC 2005-2006  Future Education Forum, in Busan, South Korea; at the WorldCALL 2013 Conference in Glasgow, UK; At the CALL Research Conference 2008, University of Antwerp, Belgium; at the National Society of Higher Education Language Teachers (SONAPLES, 2013), Chile, and at the APVEA Conference 2021 Virtual Exchange Association: "Making Virtual Exchange Mainstream". She was invited twice as an international expert (Beijing & Shanghai, 2009) by the UNESCO National Commission of the government of China for advising on a "Cyber ​​Network for Language Learning" (CNLL). She has also been invited by different universities in Chile as an expert adviser for their English language teaching and learning projects with the use of ICT, granted by the Chilean Ministry of Education & the World Bank. She has published in CALICO, RECALL, The European Journal of Applied Linguistics & TEFL journal, WorldCALL book, TELECOLLABORATION 2.0 book, and in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language Learning and Technology (2024), and other journals. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the CALL Journal (Taylor & Francis); and other national and international journals. She has been coeditor of WorldCALL 2018 proceedings book, and served as  Guest Editor of a Special Issue "Post-pandemic Technology Enhanced Language Learning"(2021) for Sustainability,  She is a member of the WorldCALL Association Steering Committee and was the local Chair for WorldCALL 5 (2018), held for the first time in Latin America, in Concepción, Chile. She is the President of LatinCALL, the newly created Latin American Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning.