Online learning

Co-operative Farming provides access to a wide range of online learning options to enable you to undertake self-paced learning. This means you can complete learning where and when it’s convenient for you.

BCCM’s Co-operative Foundations online modules have been developed to provide farmers, fishers and foresters a foundational understanding of co-operatives and how working together in a co-op increases the profits, efficiency, and value of participating agricultural businesses and their sector as a whole, now and for the future.

Read more about our online modules and other courses for Australian agricultural communities below.

Online courses

Co-operative Farming online modules

Co-operative Foundations is a range of succinct online modules at the foundational and intermediate levels, that serve as the starting point to begin your co-operative education journey. The core topics are:

  • Introduction to co-operatives
  • Membership
  • Business planning
  • Governance
  • Financial reporting and metrics
  • Co-operative capital and fundraising.
Register for free or login to complete these online modules.

BCCM online courses

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Co-operative Foundations

Co-operative Foundations

The following modules have been developed to provide farmers, fishers and foresters a foundational understanding of co-operatives and how working together in a co-op increases the profits, efficiency, and value of participating agricultural businesses and their sector as a whole, now and for the future.