These are some of the other sites where "How to Plan a Course" is addressed.

http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/principles/index.html

http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Instructional_Principles_and_Hypotheses

http://murdoch.academia.edu/JenniParker/Papers/410074/Practitioner_practices_for_designing_and_delivering_online_higher_education_courses_within_a_learning_management_system

http://www.aare.edu.au/06pap/sir06100.pdf (the diagram on page 13 is the most useful summary of dimensions to consider)