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.
Image: Turner Enterprises. The world's total land mass consists of 36.8 billion acres of inhabitable land. An incredible 21 percent of this land is owned by a short list of landowners, according to The New Statesman. Of course that includes the Queen of England, who nominally owns places like Canada and Australia.