E-learning leads to changes in the way courses are conceived. Diffused through the Web, course content cannot be the pure transcription of a "classical" course. The students need to personalize it and to access it when they need it (just-in-time). The MEMORAe project aims at applying knowledge management techniques to improve the structure of the content and its access in e-learning solutions. The authors propose to build an ontology-based learning organizational memory and to give the users direct access to this memory by using knowledge books. The pilot application was a course on algorithms and programming attended by beginner students in a technological university in France. (Contains 15 references.) (Author/AEF)