Marco Bento graduated in Basic Education - 1st Cycle, by ESE
of Coimbra. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in ICT and an MSc in ICT,
specializing in Multimedia Communication in 2013. He has won an Academic Merit
Scholarship for his Higher Education course in 2015. He is a member of two
international networks, COST- Digital Literacy Skills and Practices in the
Early Years (DigiLitEY) and the International Network for
Research-Collaborative Action. He is currently a researcher and PhD student at
the Center for Research in Education at the University of Minho, with a
research grant awarded by FCT in the Doctoral Program Technology Enhanced
Learning and Societal Challenges (TEL-SC). He is also a co-researcher on the
following projects: International Bringing Life Project Into the Classroom,
project of pedagogical innovation with the use of mobile devices in education;
International Project Games2Learn & Gamification2Engage, project that
intends to work learning through play and the phenomenon of gamification in the
educational process; His areas of interest are: Educational Technology,
Mobile-Learning, Game-Based Learning, Gamification, Flipped Learning,
Environments of Pedagogical Innovation and New Learning Spaces.