For the Arts and Design, it is quite common to use the objective-based learning method. Objects normally full of meanings of visual culture and reflecting on self-awareness.
The object-based learning is not only restricted for physical teaching in the classroom. It can be also successfully practiced online teaching as well. The object-learning could enrich in literacy skills around researching the archives and collections. I was quite impressed when we practiced object-learning in the online seminars, we were quite engaged with our own reflections to the objects, comparing the differences.
Rethink about my subject teachings, in Finance and Economics, I was wondering whether I can apply some skills from object-based learning to the lectures and seminars as well. The intuition for the object-based learning is to ask student to touch, see, and feel for the object first then gradually moving to the theories based. The physical object is the thing students could see directly, then to feel with imaginations. This reminds me the physical object-based is the best to begin with the students. This also showed in the seminar group discussions, when everyone described the three things, the first one which we normally use in our daily life is the easiest one to describe than the other two, using imagination to fill the gap.
Thus, reflecting to my Finance and Economics, I begin to think about rather than talking with the numbers, for example, 100 units of products, £3000 costs for inventory, I could use the objectives as examples, to show to the students. For example, rather than saying £3000 costs for inventory, I could say, suppose we make 100 clothes and leaving 80 clothes in the storage because we sold 20 clothes in the store we have on the high street. Instead of talking about the numbers, I could use the physical objects as examples and ask students to imagine if they were manager trying to manage the storage. This could be more directly and easier for them to start with.