Outdoor education (OE) is surrounded with challenges when positioned in physical education (PE) and physical education teacher education (PETE). Studies of OE in Swedish PE show that it is problematic to achieve goals and intentions in the national PE curriculum. When OE is implemented in Swedish PE it is often limited by factors such as the environment, resources, group size, pupils and the teacher's level of knowledge. PE teachers in Sweden have also proved to have difficulty using subject knowledge from PETE in their PE teaching. This relationship points to a need to strengthen the knowledge of how subject content in OE in PETE can influence school PE.
Lately, digital technology has come to be an important part in schools and in teacher education in Sweden. In this paper, we will describe a project which aims to investigate how digital technology is used, and how it can be used, in the context of OE in PE and PETE in Sweden. Increased knowledge of how contemporary processes such as digitalisation can influence educational practices is important in the strive to strengthen the relationship between PE and PETE with regards to OE.