Аннотация:The article aims at launching a scientific discussion, by systematizing and defining the context of research of digitization in adult education.For this purpose, the topics, historical, theoretical, disciplinary and interdisciplinary references will be pointed out.In addition, approaches and challenges of research under digital conditions will be addressed by discussing infrastructures, applications and approaches of research.The article explicitly invites controversy and invites to set impulses for an explicit adult education research on digital phenomena.