Popcorn Learning Agency

As familiar digital learning trends continue into 2026, new patterns are starting to emerge alongside them. These aren’t fully formed yet, but they’re showing up more often in conversations, pilots and early-stage projects. In this blog, we explore the learning trends that look set to shape the next phase of L&D, based on what we’re beginning to see accelerate in practice. Looking forward feels different to looking back When we look back at learning trends, it’s usually clear why something...

As we move into 2026, many of the digital learning trends that gained momentum in 2025 haven’t disappeared. In this blog, we reflect on the trends that we’re continuing to see in real projects and conversations with L&D teams. Have you ever noticed how learning trends rarely arrive all at once? They don’t usually show up with a clean start date. Instead, they creep in quietly. A pilot here. A workaround there. A conversation that keeps coming up in meetings. By the time something gets...

New Year’s Day has a way of sharpening focus. It’s a natural moment to ask what’s worth keeping, what needs to change, and what “good” should look like going forward. As we reach the final post in our Top 10 countdown of our most-read learning blogs of the year, it points clearly to one answer: learning that exists purely to tick a box is no longer enough. New Year’s Day questions tend to be bigger There’s something about the first day of the year that invites a different kind of thinking....