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Gerrit van Honthorst’s oil on canvas Triumph of the Winter Queen: Allegory of the Just (1636) was unveiled this Valentine’s Day for the 400th wedding anniversary of Elizabeth Stuart and Frederick V, known as the “Wint...

A scene from the movie Beautiful Creatures, directed by Richard LaGravenese.

Stanford’s Machine Learning homework assignments were MATLAB/Octave-based programming assignments and multiple-choice review questions, seen here. On each retry of a problem set, question parameters and answer choices...

6.00x students earn credit for submitting code to online checkers. Feedback is instant, but limited: A green checkmark appears if your code passes all test cases, otherwise it lists failed tests.

Stanford professor Andrew Ng SM ’98 teaches Machine Learning, a 10-week Coursera MOOC. A key component of most MOOCs are lecture segments, pictured here, where instructors write notes and mark up slides.

6.00x students developed an unusual fondness for Professor Eric Grimson PhD ’80, who is also MIT’s chancellor. After Grimson reappeared in a few lecture sequences ­— having been replaced for some lectures by Profs. Jo...

EdX features a slick course progress interface that lets students easily see how many more points they need for a certain grade. Most of the 6.00x final grade derives from two midterms and a final exam, with problem s...

Joe Flacco, the MVP, as pictured in the 2008 training camp.