Thinking about a job with young children? This course covers the daily work: keeping kids safe, nurturing babies and toddlers, and helping them play and learn. Study online at your own pace, with lifetime access.
There is a real shortage of qualified workers in early childhood. This course is a great place to start your learning journey, and it opens up more job prospects around care and education.
Already in the industry? Refresh your skills and add to what you know, from learning frameworks to child protection. Real world scenarios and industry videos show you the job as it happens.
Step-by-step modules and video lessons, taught on demand. No classroom, no timed exams, and you can retake assessments as many times as you need. Lifetime access means there is no deadline hanging over you.
Skills like these are needed right across early childhood: childcare centres, family day care, playgroups and private homes. The work is easy to picture: reading a story, settling a toddler, planning the afternoon, keeping the room safe and happy.
Working beside educators through the day: play, meals, nappies, naps and safety. The care skills this course builds, used all day.
Running activities and supporting children's learning in a centre, with the framework and observation skills from the course behind you.
Caring for a small group in a home setting. Health and safety, play and learning, and the legal side all come into it.
One family, your own routine. Understanding development and building respectful relationships with kids is the whole job.
Keeping a busy room moving, including every child, and working well with parents and other adults.
Activities and games for groups of kids, with safety and inclusion built into how you plan them.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience.
Thirteen topics, from keeping children safe to planning play and learning.
Here is what stands out in this course.
You see the work in action instead of reading about it. Video sessions and scenarios from the sector, taught on demand.
Nurturing babies and toddlers, supporting play and learning, and fostering a child's whole development. The care side and the learning side, together.
Health and safety of children, spotting and responding to children and young people at risk, and workplace health and safety. The part of the job that matters most.
Your access never runs out. Finish at your own pace, then come back and revise once you are in the room with the kids.
Course Completion Acknowledgement · Online Courses Australia
Finish the course and you receive the college's Course Completion Acknowledgement, plus a short form credential for Childcare Pathway.
The course is fully CPD endorsed. Your CPD points show on your completion acknowledgement as proof you keep learning.
A digital badge issued by Credly, ready to share wherever you want to show it.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide, current pricing and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime with instant access. Choose the interest-free weekly plan with no credit check, pay in four interest-free instalments, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the video lessons and scenarios with your mentor and tutors behind you. Marking comes back within one business day, and you can retake assessments.
Complete the course and receive your Course Completion Acknowledgement, CPD points and a Credly digital badge.
Both. It is a good place to start your learning journey in early childhood. If you already work in the sector, it is there to refresh your skills and add to what you know.
The weekly plan is $15 a week, interest-free with no credit check. Enquire for the full payment options, including pay-in-four and upfront.
Around 180 study hours, at your own pace. Access is lifetime, so there is no deadline. You can come back to the material after you finish.
One on one mentor support from a mentor with industry experience. Tutor help by email or phone Monday to Friday, and live chat 7 days a week.
Short-answer and multiple-choice, built to help you understand rather than test you against the clock. You can retake them as many times as you need, and marking comes back within one business day.
A Course Completion Acknowledgement and a short form credential for Childcare Pathway, plus CPD points and a Credly digital badge you can share.
It is CPD endorsed, which is accreditation for professional development: you finish with CPD points employers recognise, plus a Credly digital badge. It is not a nationally recognised qualification. That is a different thing. If you go on to accredited study later, the grounding you build here helps you make that call.
Yes. There is a 7-day cooling-off period. You can switch to another course or get your money back.
This course is delivered by Online Courses Australia, an online training provider. Its courses are designed with institutions, employers and industry experts.
The college is CPD endorsed and issues Credly digital badges with its completion acknowledgements. Lessons run as step-by-step video modules, not dense textbooks. Support runs through one on one mentoring, tutor help by phone and email on weekdays, and live chat seven days a week.
Picture the morning you walk into the room, the kids all know your name, and this is your job.