[foreverCarlos]

While I agree with your general skepticism, I also believe there are ways these data could benefit the students. Extracting value from operational data could mean modernizing curriculum, offering more office hours, etc.

[civilized]

I think most of the value of "data" is captured in empowering individual contributors to observe their working conditions and the impact of their actions and adapt their strategy in response. The power of the central office spreadsheet wielders is very secondary. (Which is of course not to say that spreadsheets are not valuable, as any teacher knows.)

[foreverCarlos]

In an ideal world - yes. But seeing how overworked professors and other staff members already are in top universities, I doubt this is top of mind for them. There are courses with hundreds of enrolled students, weekly homework, practical projects, etc. IMO somewhat centralized DS tools are more suited to handle this load than an individual contributor (a professor in this context).