In authentic classrooms, students are
given more ownership over what they learn,
and are required to integrate multiple
contents and multiple skills holistically.
Students who entered the environment with
content knowledge in engineering and
aeronautics were very successful. When
students lacked sufficient background
knowledge or skill, they felt less successful,
and many of them struggled in the
environment. The struggling students
expressed a desire to improve the classroom
by fostering teamwork so that students could
mentor each other, increasing resources,
decreasing class size, and improving access
to the teacher.