After a year and 1/2 of working through this process, we've learned a few things. One is to consistently stay on the participants as they transition from being meeting participants to subject matter experts (SMEs). Initially, we had a weekly conference call where people "could" participate if they were running into a problem or had questions about the content they were developing. Needless to say, there was very little participation in a voluntary call. We should have worked with them individually through virtual conferencing as they began to develop their lesson scripts. This would have helped them stay within agreed-upon goals and learning objectives. Things went pretty far afield from what we'd agreed to in some cases, which resulted in more work later.
We did not adhere to the original deadlines, nor did we follow up with people when they passed. There was a system to track projects set up which wound up being ignored because it was too difficult to work with our SMEs on lesson documents. We've since found Google Docs to be very good for document sharing (but it doesn't have very good project tracking, if any).
We'll be "sitting down" (virtually) with the participants in this first project to have a post-mortem. It's clear already what we'd like to change; we are looking forward to our meeting participants, subsequently SMEs, telling us what they think (hopefully in a nice way
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