In recent years, emerging technologies such as big data, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing have matured. The integration of digital technology and online education promotes online education governance into the digital age. However, there are still some governance dilemmas in the digitalization process. How to solve the existing difficulties and promote the digital governance process of online education is the top priority for the development of online education. On the basis of clarifying the connotation of digital governance of online education, this paper explains the difficulties faced by online education in the digital age, and proposes the implementation path, including imperfect teaching platform and lack of supervision system, perfecting education evaluation model, establishing risk control and early warning mechanism.