Accessing and extracing knowledge from online documents is crucial for the realization of the semantic web and provision of advanced knowledge services. the project is an ongoing investigation tacling these issues to facilitate the creation of tailored material course in the e-learning management system from information harvested from the web. in this paper we will present the methods we currently use to model, consolidate and strore knowledge extracted from from the web so that it can be re-purposed as adaptive e-learning content. we look at how semantic web technology could be used within this process and also how such tehcniques might be used to provide content to be published via the semantic web.