• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.517-535
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• 2021

The development of digital technology has not only brought many changes to our lives, but also many changes to the online education environment. The emergence of micro-learning is to meet the needs of individual learners who hopes to receive personalized learning content immediately when they need it. Therefore, Micro-learning can be said to be 'adaptive' education. This research attempts to explore the development principles of adaptive micro-learning through literature research and case analysis. The results of the research draw four aspects of the development principles, including adaptive learning environment, adaptive learning content, adaptive learning sequence and adaptive learning evaluation, as well as detailed elements of each aspect. Micro-learning is a new form of e-learning that reflects the needs of the current society. As exploratory research, this research attempts to point out the direction for future follow-up research.