Transforming adult learning in the digital age: exploring environmental, content, and technological changes Karin Julia Rott S & Bernhard Schmidt-Hertha The widespread adoption of digital technology has brought about significant societal changes in recent decades. The impact of digitalisation is felt in nearly every aspect of our lives, from the way we communicate and work to how we access information and entertainment. As a result, digitalisation has also had a profound effect on adult education, with new opportunities but also challenges (Jütte & Wildemeersch, Citation 2017 ). In this context, digitisation is changing adult education in three ways, which we want to discuss in this special issue: (1) through changing environmental conditions, (2) through digitisation-induced changes in content and topics, and (3) through new opportunities of learning tools. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many adult education institutions to convert their educational programmes to an on...