Drawn from Roger van Oech's "Whack Pack," this page provides one of 64 different creative interventions to help you along with the problem you're trying to solve.
Online paper that addresses how online learning environments can be used to promote student writing that is autonomous and authentic. (A "taxonomy of instructional objectives" is included.)
Online paper tying together several dimensions of online learning environments (including interactivity, autonomy, learning theory, psychological orientation, etc.)