Independent · Australian English · Est. 2009
Online learning, reported from Australia
Digital Courses is a long-form journal about short courses, platforms, subsidies and the unfashionable work of learning after hours. We write for people who have a job, a mortgage and a tab with seventeen unfinished lectures.
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Building and selling courses · 21 February 2026
A working method for scoping a digital program so students in Ballarat or Broome still reach the last module — and you do not spend six months filming a diploma nobody finishes.
By Tom Brennan · Read the full article
Money and funding · 14 February 2026
A map of Fee-Free TAFE, leftover JobTrainer logic and the state skill lists that still cut the price — if you check eligibility yourself, not with a salesperson on the phone.
By Amelia Hart · Read the full article
Five desks, one publication. Each hub gathers the guides we keep updating as platforms, subsidies and employer habits change.
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How the big marketplaces, university portals and TAFE Digital actually behave once you have given them a credit card.
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Which short courses hiring managers in Australia still bother to open, and which ones quietly die in a downloads folder.
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Routines, notes, scam-spotting and the paperwork of stacking credentials when the lecture is a video and the campus is the kitchen table.
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Subsidies, student loans, employer budgets, GST and the free options that are still worth a Sunday afternoon.
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Planning, pricing, recording, platforms and Australian Consumer Law for people who want to teach online without embarrassing themselves.
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Building and selling courses · 6 May 2026
What the Disability Discrimination Act and WCAG 2.2 actually ask of a course you sell from a spare room, and why government buyers will check the captions first.
By Priya Nair · Read the full article
Building and selling courses · 29 April 2026
Refunds, testimonials, outcome claims and the cooling-off story that will not change an ACCC letter — written for sellers, not as legal advice.
By Amelia Hart · Read the full article
Career skills and credentials · 26 April 2026
Income-share contracts, advertised placement rates and a tight junior market in 2025–26. When a computer science degree still wins, and how to read outcome claims the way a consumer regulator would.
By Daniel Okonkwo · Read the full article
Money and funding · 22 April 2026
When a short course is a business expense, what a tax invoice must show, and why an overseas checkout is not automatically GST-simple — written for people with an ABN, not a finance team.
By Tom Brennan · Read the full article
How to study online · 18 April 2026
How RPL, credit transfer and digital badges actually behave in Australia — evidence, USI, fees, and the moment a stack turns into a souvenir.
By Amelia Hart · Read the full article
Building and selling courses · 15 April 2026
How small training businesses find students with email, partnerships and search — without setting fire to a Meta ads budget or the Spam Act.
By Tom Brennan · Read the full article
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