Research in e-learning has shifted in recent years its emphasis from almost purely technical aspects to pedagogy oriented interest. This shift is an indication of a positive trend which testifies to the preoccupations of teachers and educators. Nevertheless, and despite declarations of good intentions, more research effort should be made to attract more teachers towards the use of learning technologies. In our work, we are in favor of developing pedagogical approaches. However, since the field of learning technologies (LTs) has made significant progress in recent years (LOM, DC, EML, LD), we have to support this trend. This paper describes our approach and some of our findings out of several experiments that we have conducted. We also give the architectural design of an e-learning environment that is being deployed, whereby advances in LTs information models and tools such as LD and MOT+LD are utilized.