Abstract
This work aims to propose a model for the design and construction of a knowledge management model for agricultural education based on ontologies. It proposes, through the business model identification, the business processes, the intellectual capital and the ontologies, to develop a model which can identify intelligent technological tools based on ontologies. The relationship between each part of the model is shown and explained, and the technological elements that support it arise. From the combination of elements such as: knowledge management, the university as capitalizer of knowledge, the ontology as elements to represent the knowledge and the intelligent technologies as support to all the above, develops the ontological model that leads to the innovative university, where the Milagro campus of the Agrarian University of Ecuador (UAE) is the case of study. This model incorporates the “know-how” of knowledge management, agriculture production and collaborative learning articulated with Information Communication and Technology (ICT) applied to educational management in the agricultural sector. The ontology is developed as the main mechanism to represent knowledge, which defines the meaning of the terms and the language used as well as the relationship between them. The application of this model is expected to structure the technological and knowledge bases required for agriculture teaching.
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The authors wish to express our deepest gratitude to Dr. Jacobo Bucaram Ortíz, founding rector of the Agrarian University of Ecuador for his experience and knowledge.
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Muñoz-García, A., Del Cioppo, J., Bucaram-Leverone, M. (2017). Ontology Model for the Knowledge Management in the Agricultural Teaching at the UAE. In: Valencia-García, R., Lagos-Ortiz, K., Alcaraz-Mármol, G., Del Cioppo, J., Vera-Lucio, N., Bucaram-Leverone, M. (eds) Technologies and Innovation. CITI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67283-0_19
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