L. Dee Fink developed the Integrated Course Design in 2003. This model much builds on the backwards design model of Wiggins and McTighe but has become more popular. The design process incorporates three phases with sub levels. Below is a brief description:

1. Beginning Phase - Building Strong Primary Components
   This step is very much an analysis of the student, institution, community, professor, subject, challenges etc. and the expectations of the outcomes and students benefit from the course. Level 2-4 of this phase lean heavily on the backwards design of Wiggins & McTighe but Fink is using his own taxonomy of Significant Learning. Level five involves setting goals and learning assessment.
2. Intermediate phase: Assembly
   The second phase involves the development of the course. The different components are carefully placed together so as that the framework for the course holds each explicit activity .
3. Final Phase: The details fall in place
   In this phase grading strategies are implemented, problems are anticipated, the syllabus is written, and feedback to designers and instructors are developed.

Fink's Five Principles of good Course Design

Dee Fink also developed criteria for the components needed for a course to be called a "good course." These fice critieria are:

1. Challenge student to higher level learning
2. Use active learning and critical thinking
3. Give frequent and immediate feedback
4. Use structured sequence of different learning activities (i.e. include sequential variety)
5. Fair assessing and grading

Read more about Fink's five criteria.