Nowadays, autonomous driving represents the van-guard of mobility in a worldwide context. This makes the development of robust control laws and, in consequence, accurate dynamic models absolutely critical. This work showcases that living lab experiences are a powerful method for enhancing vehicle dynamics education for undergraduate engineering students; even then, differences in scales among experimental platforms are non-trivial. To get insights on this, we present a series of structured workshops guiding students into hands-on experiments, which allow them to experiment with these differences using a scaled vehicle 1/10 (RoboRacer), along with a full-scale automotive platform (NEV). The workshop contains hands-on task-based learning activities for data gathering, research, and dynamic modeling for both longitudinal and lateral vehicle dynamics via scaffolding. The workshop deliverables indicated an average improvement of 15 points out of 100 between assignments 1-2, featuring corresponding longitudinal dynamics modeling. However, when tasked to model an unknown dynamics over the more complex vehicle directly, the average performance dropped drastically. Nevertheless, the student stated their preference for working with both platforms using an escalated-learning approach.
