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  1. Le Mans Université, LIUM, Le Mans, Cedex 9, France

    Iza Marfisi-Schottman

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Marfisi-Schottman, I. (2020). Games in Higher Education. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_35

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