The given pie charts illustrate the approaches used by overseas students to reserve online courses in Australia, the USA, and Canada over two years: 2009 and 2010.
It is obvious that the proportion of students booking online courses rose in three countries throughout the tracking period, while the three means of reserving courses varied by year and by each country.
In 2009, the figures related to students booking via the Internet in Australia were only 24%, then substantially increased to 39% in the following year. Conversely, in the USA and Canada, the percentage decreased slightly from 26% and 27% to 25% at both. The proportion of students booking upon arrival in Australia saw a gradual growth of precisely 4% and the USA remained stable; however, in Canada, the arrival bookings plummeted from the highest figure of 45% to just 26% in 2010.
While the distribution of pre-booking with agents in Canada and America experienced an upward trend, standing at approximately 28% and 35% in 2010, the opposite was true in Australia. The number of students choosing this way to reserve learning courses decelerated from 27% to only 11%. The other methods declined by 3% points in both Australia and the USA, while concurrently witnessing a threefold increase to 18% from an initial 6% in Canada at the end of the period.