4.3.1) Public resources (lifelong learning)
Provide free access to educational resources for those not studying at the university.

To promote lifelong learning, the school provides various free educational resources for people outside campus, including:

1.Free courses that offer certificates or awards：
◆The Office of Continuing Education offered 35 online Chinese language courses for overseas youth, serving a total of 162 participants.

◆The Office of Continuing Education offered a total of 8 online distance learning sessions for overseas Chinese language teachers, serving 97 participants.

◆The Office of Continuing Education, subsidized by the Ministry of Labor's Youth Vocational Training Project, offered a total of 3 classes: the E-Commerce Operation Workshop for the Establishment of Brand IP Community, the International Business Digital Marketing Talent Training Program, and the Data Marketing Analyst Training Program. These classes served 84 unemployed young individuals. 淡江大學產業新尖兵計畫課程

◆The Office of Physical Education organized a series of 38 lecture classes on Elderly Health, with a total of 2,730 participants.

◆The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) program: As of now, 16 courses have been organized, open for free online registration and learning. Upon successful completion of a course, participants can apply for an electronic certificate following the requirements of the platform. 淡江大學MOOCs課程翻轉教室

2.Free campus facilities and equipment:
◆Campus green spaces, outdoor sports fields, and public areas: Our Tamsui campus has always been an open campus without walls, allowing community members and visitors to enter freely on foot. It's common to see community members rest or exercise in the beautiful campus environment. There are many distinctive and historically significant buildings and spaces on campus, all of which are carefully maintained and open for the public. We have one track and field, four basketball courts, three volleyball courts, four tennis courts, and even a skating rink among our outdoor sports facilities. These facilities are free for public use, except during class hours.

◆Library resources:
(1)The library organizes multiple lectures on library resources each year, and the lecture materials are available on the website for free learning. The lecture materials have been downloaded 1,457 times.

(2)The library has issued valid library cards to 3,568 individuals from outside the university, allowing them to access and borrow from a collection of 1.32 million physical books, 2.8 million e-books, and 66 thousand electronic journals for free.

(3)The library has established the European Union Information Center (EUi), which provides not only official publications of the EU but also books and journals related to European and EU studies. They also publish the "EU Information Center Newsletter" (free subscription) and offer consultation to the public. Currently, there are 952 subscribers to the newsletter.

◆Cross-campus wireless network roaming services: Our university offers two types of cross-campus wireless network roaming services, including TANetRoaming (the seamless roaming between campuses) and eduroam (the international academic institution roaming). Faculty, staff, and students from participating institutions can access the wireless network for free at our university using their original institution's accounts.

3.The online educational resources for free use:
◆The "Tamsui Learning" website serves as a matchmaking platform that connects the teaching resource needs of primary and secondary schools with university-level resources, allowing universities to share their resources with primary and secondary schools and the local community in the Tamsui area. 大淡水教學資源分享平台

◆The "SDGs Writing Action Kit" includes various sets of online teaching materials designed for elementary school students, focusing on different SDGs. It combines the sustainability issues faced by Taiwan today with the United Nations' SDGs concept, crafting them into a series of stories to guide primary school students from their hometowns towards the global community, encouraging them to express their thoughts in writing, ultimately achieving the goals of quality education and sustainable urban-rural development. SDGs書寫行動包

◆Online Picture Books: "Egyptian Adventure Fun," "If Penguins Were in Rome," "My Dowry Shop," "Intense Days," and "Swallows Arrive in Zhengde Village."

◆Tamsui Wiki website: Through the integration of information infrastructure and relevant courses, the university guides students to preserve local memories using digital technology, field surveys, oral interviews, visual storytelling, collaborative writing, and other professional training. 淡水維基館

◆The Office of Physical Education offered eight online live sport courses, with 348 participants.

◆Open Courses: The university offers free access to general courses and lecture courses through the "Tamkang University Open Course Ware" YouTube channel, providing higher education resources to the public. To date, it has accumulated over 470,000 views.

◆"Modern Chinese" is Taiwan's first set of Chinese language teaching materials based on the Huace 8,000-word vocabulary and the TBCL (Taiwan Benchmarks for the Chinese Language) of National Academy for Educational Research. The digital materials currently include learning resources from the first to fourth volumes, including audio files learning sheets, flashcards, Kahoot, and Quizlet for presentations, textbooks, and workbooks. These resources are provided for teachers and students using "Modern Chinese." A trial version of "Modern Chinese 2.0" for the first and second lessons of the first volume is available for free on the digital platform, along with the full digital platform for "Modern Chinese 1.0."