1. Remember EMBERS and Inquiry-Based Collaborative Action

2. Team Collaboration Action Model
An Inquiry-Based
Team Collaboration Action Model
Gosselin 2015

3. Organizational Collaboration

4. Team

5. What is MBR? One-Minute Drawing Draw a picture of the water cycle
(Your mental model/boundary object)
Share your water cycle model with your neighbor
Create a model with your neighbor
(Co-created Boundary Negotiating Object)

6. What is MBR?
MBR theory
Humans reason by constructing an internal mental model of the situations, events, and processes that they encounter.
External representations facilitate construction of these mental models.

7. What is MBR?
External representations facilitate construction of these mental models.

8. What is MBR?
Pennington et. al 2016

9. What is MBR? External representations include: Metaphor Analogies
Visual models
Diagrams
Pictures/Drawings
Maps
Simulations
Others

10. Characteristics of Effective Collaboration
Voluntary
Shared Goal
Parity
Shared
Responsibility
Accountability
Resources
Emergent
Characteristics of
Effective
Collaboration
Adapted from Friend and Cook, 1996

11. Team Collaboration Action Model
An Inquiry-Based
Team Collaboration Action Model
Gosselin 2015

12. Conceptual Framework for Successful Trans-disciplinary Collaboration
LEE
Kuban, 2016

13. Conceptual model of interactions between individual and group processes
Pennington 2016

14. Questions