Marco Bento was born in Coimbra. In 2003, he graduated in Primary Education at Coimbra School of Education, Coimbra Polytechnic Institute (IPC). He has a Postgraduate Diploma in ICT and a Master in ICT, with specialization in Multimedia Communication.
In 2015, he awarded a Merit Scholarship for his Academic path in Higher Education.
He received international recognition for two European prizes, which recognize the best research in the area of pedagogical practices using digital with young children (2016) and Innovative Learning Spaces mediated by technology (2018).
He is author and responsible for several trainings, workshops and communications about the use of mobile devices and innovative pedagogical scenarios mediated by technology in educational context (mobile learning, ubiquitous learning, flipped learning, gamification, game based learning, project based learning, spaced learning, collaborative and cooperative learning scenarios, ...).

He is currently a lecturer at the Coimbra School of Education and a integrated researcher in educational technology and teacher training / pedagogical practices at the Nucleus of Research, Education, Training and Intervention (NIEFI - ESEC) and a researcher in educational technology at the Center for Research in Education (CIEd), at the University of Minho.

He is also a pedagogical consultant and since January 2020 he took up the Pedagogical Direction at Colégio Santa Eulália, in Santa Maria da Feira, the first Google For Education Reference School in Portugal.
He is part of two international networks, the COST-Digital Literacy Skills and Practices Network in the Early Years (DigiLitEY), in which he is co-investigator in the action "Digital literacy and multimodality skills: practices with children between 4 and 9 years of age" and the International Collaborative Action Research Network

He is a researcher at the Research and Training of Teachers and Educational Technologies Group of the Foundation to Support the Technical School of the State of Rio de Janeiro - FAETEC, at the Higher Institute of Education of Rio de Janeiro.

He leads the Nucleus of Investigation and Research of Luso-Brazilian Educational Technology-NIPTecEDU, since January 2023.

He is currently coordinator of the European Research Project STEAMing Ahead: Moving the STEAM Approach forward through teacher-led cooperation.
He is currently co-researcher on the European projects:
- Empowering Digital Competences of Teachers with Designing Digital Learning Materials Through Gamification, a project on the development of digital skills;
- Together Everyone Can Prevent Cyberbullying, a project on preventing and combating cyberbullying;

- Robots for STEM: building, teaching and learning, an international project on learning with Robots in conjunction with STEM activities;

- Connecting Pedagogy with Technology; an international project that aims to recognize and promote the best pedagogical practices in online models with technology;
- Gaming in Action - engaging adult learners with games and gamification, an international project with the objective of involving adults in learning through educational games;

- 12 Habits for Success, an international project aimed at understanding and developing study habits in a technological age;

- E-Learning course on Mobile Robotics for Adult Education: the fourth industrial revolution, an international project on teacher training to work on Mobile Robotics in a technological society;
- FCT Rekindle + 50 Project - Digital migrations and curricular innovation: giving new meaning to experience and rekindle teaching profession after 50, which aims to re-enchant teachers with more than 50 years of teaching through technology.

He was co-investigator in the International Project Bringing Life Into the Classroom, a pedagogical innovation project with the use of mobile devices in education, which presupposed the pedagogical use of mobile technologies in an educational context and the European Project Games2Learn & Gamification2Engage, which researched learning through the game and the phenomenon of gamification in the educational process.He Coordinates for 5 years the SUPERTABi Project (to transform pedagogical practices through the use of pedagogical models centered in the student and mediated by mobile technologies, potentiating the new learning spaces), as well as Coordinates the Meetings on Pedagogical Innovation SUPERTABi to discuss the three dimensions of research: pedagogy, technology and learning space.He is member and editorial assistant of the magazine and website Estreiadialogos, from the International Research-Action Collaborative Network.