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Open courseware
Eclipse Community Education Project
The goal of the Eclipse Community Education Project (ECESIS) is to promote the creation, improvement and distribution of commercial and academic quality Eclipse courseware, education and training technologies, and resource material.
Academic Initiative Courseware Repository
Academic Initiative members can download our courses on open standards and open source technologies.

Classroom tools
CodeRuler
Stretch your Java programming skills with this new animated graphical simulator. Born of the 2004 ACM International Collegiate Programming competition, CodeRuler is IBM alphaWorks' newest fantasy gaming simulator challenge.
CodeRally
CodeRally is a Java™-based, real-time programming game based on the Eclipse platform. It uses the Eclipse platform and a very simple API that allows users unfamiliar with Java to easily compete while they learn the Java language. CodeRally was first used at the 2003 ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition.
Robocode
A programming game that teaches Java in a fun, rewarding manner by letting you create Java "Robots," real Java objects that battle it out onscreen against other robots.
The Cloudscape Detective
New users of IBM Cloudscape database can learn relational database concepts through a fun and interactive game called Cloudscape Detective using this interactive tutorial.

Open source & open standards
IBM Open Source Portal  
White paper: Why Open Source Software/Free Software? Look at the numbers!  
SourceForge  
On Demand Business  
Open Source Initiative  
Free Software Foundation  
Open source projects  

Eclipse
Eclipse.org  
Article: Welcome to the dawn of Eclipse  

Linux
Linux zone  
Linux at IBM  

Java technology
Java technology zone