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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...

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...

INFOGRAPHIC BY CONNOR KIRSCHBAUM

IKE (Interdimensional Kinetic Entity), an alien creature from the puzzle-platformer video game Quantum Conundrum, developed by Airtight Games and published by Square Enix.

Allison Tovo-Dwyer G.

Heng “Nikita” Guo G.

Brian G. Anderson ’13.

Jacqueline “Chacha” Durazo ’14 is a contestant for Miss Boston this year.

Kira S. Kopacz ’15 is a contestant for Miss Boston this year.