A new approach in teaching digital network protection

Protection technique is one of the fundamental disciplines of power system engineering. The Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg offers one lecture with an additional weekly laboratory session in this discipline for the masters program as well as one for undergraduate students. In addition to the lecture a new way of teaching in a specially designed multimedia laboratory at the university has been offered to the students since the fall of 2004. In this paper the realization of an E-Learning project for the discipline "digital protection" is presented. In the course a special chapter presenting protection concepts in distribution systems with dispersed energy resources is included. The concept of implementing the learning material on the basis of written scenarios is shown. Simulations in MATLAB for illustrating the teaching material during the virtual teaching are also given. A multiple choice quiz at the end of each chapter is included to test the knowledge gained by the students. This new method of teaching has been well accepted by the students