Australians are enthusiastic users of online courses that develop work-related digital and business skills and show particular prowess in areas such as human resources, cloud computing, web development and data analysis and visualisation.

An analysis of 100 million learners registered with the online platform Coursera, including 1.1 million Australians, shows people around the world are upskilling using online courses in technology, data science and business-related human skills in an effort to keep ahead of the tide of digital transformation, inflation and global instability.