Interesting Numbers

I found this statistic to be interesting.  A quarter of the Canadian population used the Internet to get an education. This was 80% of all full and part time students in Canada.  This makes me wonder a couple of things: one the Canadian population may be a little more tech savy among the population than say the average country.  Two, the Canadian population may either A) the population may not have the time to take traditional college courses and opt for online education or B) they may prefer distance education to traditional education.  These are just hypotheses about what these numbers mean.  What do you think they mean? Is Canada further along with distance education than the United States?