E-learning Industry, an institution focused on analyzing international e-learning development. e-learning Industry has published the annual report which includes the evolution and change of the e-learning market. The forecasts of this institution are optimistic in the sense that the increase in budget allocations to online education programs is included (e-learning Industry, 2018).

Also new technologies trends and emerging resources favor online education for the coming years. These trends support the role of social learning within the teaching-learning process.

Despite this, the global e-learning industry is complex since technological trends and innovations in general lead to changes in priorities. In this sense, the tendencies identified are the following:

• Virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR).
• Intelligent assistants / Chatbots taking Siri as an iPhone reference.
• The gamification and the learning based on games.
• Adaptive and personalized learning.
• Microlearning
• The content curation that has experienced growth due to new open source resources.
• Interactive learning based on videos.
• The social learning
• The workforce enablement to boost memory.