The One School Roomhouse: An Information and Learning Approach to Curriculum Integration

The one school roomhouse, a transdisciplinary metaphor, brings together three senior level undergraduate courses-marketing, strategy, and management information systems (MIS)-to accomplish several general educational goals, namely reward and encourage students to discriminate and adapt, to take greater responsibility for their own learning, to learn teamwork, to communicate effectively, and to resolve ill-defined problems. The fundamental innovation of the course is the explicit development and use of a metalanguage of learning that is common to each of the three academic domains and is based on information and complexity. The authors describe the concept, organization, and effectiveness of the course.