In 2011 I ran an online workshop on tele-translation work (online freelancing) for ATIDA, the Arabic Translation and Intercultural Dialogue Association. It taught me as much about online facilitation as it taught the participants about freelancing.
The preliminary syllabus is available here: http://atida.info/training/course_details.php?course_id=66
The workshop was delivered in Arabic and English, with some Arabic dialect, since the nature of the session allowed for a degree of informality. About 48 participants joined online. ATIDA offered the course free of charge for promotional reasons.
Managing the online facilitation was a real challenge because of the massive flow of questions. I had to pick out, on the spot, only the relevant ones. From this I learnt a few things I will avoid the next time I run the workshop, whether online or face-to-face in a classroom. Online facilitation differs from face-to-face teaching in its learning design, in the teacher's role and in the physical environment: bricks and mortar versus the online platform or learning management system (LMS).
The PowerPoint slides:
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