The context of the knowledge economy, globalization, international integration, especially the scientific and technological revolution 4.0 with many achievements has been affecting all fields, including higher education and increase the demand for digital resources. This is a good condition for the development of open educational resources in general and open course ware in particular. In fact, open course ware in the higher education system in Vietnam is still pretty faint, mainly built and used in each higher education institution independently, lacking coordination and sharing, leading to the quantity and quality of learning resources are not high and effective. Besides many advantages, universities are also facing many difficulties and challenges in building and developing open course ware. With a core and pioneering role, the higher educational system needs to deploy appropriate and effective solutions to pioneer the development open course ware in particular and open educational resources in general, meeting the policy of building the learning society and lifelong learning, implementing a shared education. The more shared knowledge, the more developed and sustainable the educational resources.