Creative Education Online (CEO) Series

Upcoming online events

UALO CEO Seminar series 5

Josie Cockram in conversation with Dave White.

Friday 20 February 2026, 12 noon – 1pm GMT, Online via Teams.

Josie is the Course Leader of Falmouth University’s MA Fine Art Online, which launched in 2021. In 2025, she co-founded the online research group ‘Decentring through Digitality’ in Falmouth’s Centre for Pedagogy Futures in partnership with The Glasgow School of Art. She is currently working on a pedagogical research secondment with Falmouth's Centre for Blended Realities, to develop a new online short course for artists entitled 'The Centre of the Real: a phenomenological exploration of the artist’s home’. We'll talk about this research project and her 'phone phenomenology' experiments with students.

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Martin Newth in conversation with Dave White.

Friday 6 March 2026, 12 noon – 1pm GMT, Online via Teams.

Martin is the Head of the School of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art. In February 2021, Martin and Dave had a conversation about the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead as creative education emerged from the pandemic. In this seminar we will revisit that conversation and consider what transpired as supposed, and what could never have been anticipated. Has online creative education been permanently tainted by its pandemic crisis mode or have we got past the Covid 'snap-back'?

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Dave Cormier in conversation with Dave White.

Friday 20 March 2026, 12 noon – 1pm GMT, Online via Teams.

Dave is the Director of Curriculum Development and Delivery, Open Learning at Thompson Rivers University, Canada. What does the guy who wrote Learning in a Time of Abundance and invented the term 'MOOC' think about contemporary online learning and the general state of technology today? What do the learning theory of 'connectivism' and online arts education have in common? We will find out in this conversation with Dave Cormier, a doyenne of online education and someone with an uncanny ability to accurately 'read' what's happening with tech and learning.

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Upcoming in-person event

UALO CEO Symposium 2026

Making Playtime: an offline symposium about creative education online

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 10.30am – 4.30pm, Central Saint Martins, King’s Cross, London, N1C 4AA.

Join us at Central Saint Martins in central London for a day of talking, making and thinking about online creative education. Guest speakers include: Nic Whitton, Professor of Play at Northumbria University; Justin Spooner, Director of Unthinkable; Martin Newth, Head of the School of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art; and Georgia Steele, Head of Design and Development for UAL Online.

Tickets are free but booking is required: Click the 'Check availability' button to book a ticket for this in-person symposium. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. For more information, email ualonline@arts.ac.uk

For more information, and to watch recordings of past seminars, visit our UALO CEO website.

Extra information

Registration Instructions

Please only register for yourself, if you wish to share with others please refer them to the event listing.

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Ticket sales for online seminars close 3 hours before the event.

Ticket sales for the symposium close at 4pm on Friday 20 March.

Who Should Attend

These events are open for anyone interested the topics of discussion.

Where

Ticket-holders for on-site events will receive location details via email ahead of an event. Online events take place online using Teams.

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Cancellation

If you can no longer attend this event we’d appreciate it if you could cancel your place within the booking system. This gives others the opportunity to take your space.

We reserve the right to cancel this event if we do not get enough numbers, or due to other circumstances outside of our control. You will be notified via email if this happens.

Accessibility

UAL Online strives to make both our physical and online events accessible for all our participants. If you would like to discuss your needs prior to booking please contact us: ualonline@arts.ac.uk.

Contact us

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Image: Tianyue Cheng, Visual Arts Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, 2020