Yes, I think it could. I think what you just described squares nicely with the proposal I'm suggesting would work, and it's the one that Access Copyright gave you.
Nobody is disputing a student's ability to make a copy of a work for that student's education and private study—research and what have you. What creators take exception to is when institutions engage in massive copying of copyright-protected works, then turn around and put them in course packs, sell them to students and call it fair dealing.