It is said that the first real practical use  of the flipped classroom approach have begun with two American science teachers, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams.

Later on, the concept was influenced by other strategies, most importantly Eric Mazur's peer instruction strategy that impacted the transfer of information to outside of the classroom and thus encourage the lecturers to coach students by assimilating information within the class. 

Are you interested in how implementing the flipped classroom approach in done in practice?

Listen to the podcast of a lecturer and note down the benefits she addresses.