## The added value for education

Applying OBT&L has several advantages. OBT&L can:

1. Provide appreciation among students for cultural differences;
2. Make connections between academic theory and material culture;
3. Create respect for different points of view;
4. Improve observational skills;
5. Cultivate focused attention by watching slowly;
6. Promote teamwork and communication skills;
7. Foster collaboration and dialogue among students;
8. Encourage creative problem solving;
9. Increase students' self-awareness as learners.

OBT&L has the potential to create a powerful learning experience that students will remember long after the semester is over. This is because multi-sensory engagement is created within OBT&L. In addition, by interacting intensively and actively with the object step by step, information about the object and the (historical) context in which it exists sticks better.