Desing and customization of an ontology to infer knowledge in virtual learning environments

In this research, the OIVLE (Ontology Inference for Virtual Learning Environments) was designed starting from the FOAF, Daml_time y Knowledge ontologies. OIVLE´s objective is to infer knowledge in virtual learning environments. In order to prove OIVLE´s efficiency, some experiments were conducted on the teaching-learning-process of the Mathematical Calculus course which is taken in the third semester of the Electronics and Telecommunications Program at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja during the term April-August, 2011 (Mathematical Calculus). The results of the conceptualization of the teaching-learning process obtained by using OIVLE were very encouraging.