Provide appreciation among students for cultural differences;
Make connections between academic theory and material culture;
Create respect for different points of view;
Improve observational skills;
Cultivate focused attention by watching slowly;
Promote teamwork and communication skills;
Foster collaboration and dialogue among students;
Encourage creative problem solving;
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.