ISO/IEC 40180为信息技术强化学习、教育和培训（称为电子学习）中的质量保证、质量管理和质量改进提供了基础知识和参考框架。它主要由电子学习的质量参考框架（QRF）组成，这是一个描述、指定和理解质量的关键属性、特征和度量的通用框架。QRF将详细而广泛的过程模型与过程的描述模型相结合。ISO/IEC 40180统一了与电子学习、教育和培训质量相关的现有方法、概念、规范、术语和定义。

ISO/IEC 40180 provides the fundamentals and the reference framework for quality assurance, quality management and quality improvement in IT-enhanced learning, education and training (called E-Learning). It consists mainly of the Quality Reference Framework (QRF) for E-Learning, which is a common and generic framework to describe, specify and understand critical properties, characteristics and metrics of quality. The QRF combines an elaborated and extensive process model with a descriptive model for the processes. ISO/IEC 40180 harmonizes existing approaches, concepts, specifications, terms and definitions related to quality for E-Learning, education and training.