Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities including credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative stage.
Who Owns It? Canadian investors own the most reported foreign held agricultural and non-agricultural land, with 28 percent, or 7,250,834 acres. Foreign persons from the Netherlands own 19 percent, Germany owns 7, the United Kingdom owns 6 and Portugal owns 5.
The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of. land in the United States. Four major federal land management agencies administer 610.1 million. acres of this land (as of September 30, 2015).