The digitalisation of adult and continuing education involves both a societal challenge and a policy demand to harness digital media for effective adult and continuing education provision. Therefore, this article adopts an organisational perspective on adult and continuing education, raising the question of what management knowledge is needed to support the introduction of digital learning formats in public and community-based adult and continuing education organisations. An international literature review is then performed. As a result, the author draws a picture of the current state of adult and continuing education digitalisation in Switzerland and Germany. Based on this 'state of the German-speaking landscape', he identifies that information technology-infrastructure, staff development and management/leadership are the most relevant challenges for implementing digital media in adult and continuing education organisations. These are taken as a structure for reviewing international studies and developing a research agenda. The proposed research agenda frames these three fields of investigation by the state of research. The conclusion outlines questions of strategy development and strategy implementation within an organisational theory framework as relevant fields for future research.